Over the years, the anthropologists have carried out researches and surveys on various tribes that throng the mountainous region of Manipur state. The Maring tribes are mainly situated in the hilly villages of the Tengnoupal subdivision in the Chandel District.

The Maring tribe has an etymological significance. If one dissects the whole word of Maring, two terms are being derived. `Mei` means fire and `ring` means start or produce. The eminent anthropologists also have come to the inference that they have got close association with the Meitei Kings. What is even more interesting is that one can easily identify the three groups of this tribe from diverse way of dressing. Rather, the colors of their dresses become identifiable marks of these Maring tribal community people. Usually these Maring tribes prefer dresses of black and red colors along with red and black borders.

These Maring tribes speak language similar to that of any other tribe of this beautiful state of Manipur. Some anthropologists claimed that these Maring tribes originally belong to the village, Machi. It was their native home and mainly Black Maring tribes reside there. . As far as occupation of these Maring tribes is concerned, they, just like any other tribes of Indian subcontinent, practice farming and irrigation. It becomes obvious that their economy of these Maring tribes too is agrarian with low level of literacy as a whole. However, the scenario has undergone a change with improvement in their status and prestige.

Many of the Maring tribes have entered in the state politics also. Culture and tradition, needless to mention, is rightly being preserved in their original form by these Maring tribes. Fun, merrymaking, feasting, dancing and singing play an integral part of various festivals that these Maring tribal communities celebrate in great vivacity.