Place · Idu Mishmi homeland town · India
Roing & Dibang Valley
Also known as Bhismaknagar
Roing on the Deopani river at the mouth of the Dibang valley is the headquarters of the Idu Mishmi — a people of some twelve thousand in the Dibang catchment whose cosmology centres on a yearly Rren festival and whose shamans, igu, chant creation epics in a language still only partly transcribed. The site also carries Bhismaknagar, a 10-12th century rammed-earth fortress attributed in Idu and Assamese tradition to Bhismaka, father of Rukmini — making the Dibang Krishna's father-in-law's country in Vaishnava legend. The Dibang multipurpose project, planned to be India's largest dam at 288 metres and 2,880 megawatts, is held up by Idu Mishmi community opposition.
- Function
- Sacred site & pilgrimage
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 28.150, 95.850
Connections (1)
- Site adjacencyPasighat
Roing in the Dibang valley and Pasighat on the Siang are the two headquarters of the Adi-Mishmi cultural zone of eastern Arunachal — Pasighat for the Adi and Padam-Minyong subgroups, Roing for the Idu Mishmi. The two are a hundred and twenty kilometres apart across the Lower Dibang-East Siang border, connected by the trans-Arunachal highway and the Dhola-Sadiya bridge over the Brahmaputra at Sadiya downstream. The medieval Bhismaknagar fortress near Roing and the Daying Ering sanctuary near Pasighat together carry the pre-colonial Chutiya and Ahom frontier of the region.
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