Over the years, multitudes of tribal communities thrive in every corner of eastern part of Manipur state, especially the Ukhrul District. About the origination of these Tangkhul tribal community people, famous myths are popularized amongst the Tangkhul localites.

Almost the whole of the Tangkhul tribal community people converse with each other in beautiful Meiteilon langugae. What is even more significant is that these Tangkhul tribes have developed the habit of writing in the famous Roman script.

According to the anthropologists of Indian subcontinent, the whole of the Tangkhul tribes can again be subdivided into several sub tribal groups, each having distinctive languages and variants. Following the tradition of almost all the tribal communities of the northeastern hilly states of India, these Tangkhul too the agricultural practices which naturally made their economy an agrarian one. They produce in ample quantities products like rice, cotton, millet, maize, arum, chilli, sesame, ginger, tomato, pumpkin, cucumber and beans.

Another remarkable features of this Tangkhul tribal society are that they are revered by all the anthropologists for being the most erudite tribes in the whole of Manipur region. Tangkhul tribe is the most educated tribe in the state. Quite a handful of these tribal people represented eminent posts of ministers and even chief ministers even in the legislative assembly. What is even more interesting is that these Tangkhul tribal people occupy the dignified offices of that of Indian Administrative Service (IAS), doctors, engineers and professors etc. If one makes a demographic count one will find that Tangkhul tribes have the maximum number of professionals in Manipur.