Semsonsing Ingti

Semsonsing Ingti was an Indian social and economic reformer and author. He has been called the Father of the Karbi people, for his work in uniting the Karbi, an indigenous ethnic group of Assam in Northeast India concentrated in the region of Assam. He was also called Lametpo during his heyday.[1]

Semsonsing Ingti
Born(1910-02-08)February 8, 1910
West Karbi Anglong (then Tika Hills), Assam, IN
DiedFebruary 28, 1948(1948-02-28) (aged 38)
Delhi
Resting placeNagaon Baptist Church cemetery
NationalityIndia
Other namesRu Semsonsing Ingti
EducationB.A. (1933)
Alma materCotton College, Murari Chand College (Sylhet)
OccupationAcademician, Social and Economic Reformer
Years active1937–1948
EmployerSub-Inspector of Schools
Known forFounder of Karbi Nationalism, Upliftment of Karbi Tribe
Home townNagaon
TitleLametpo
Spouse(s)Labangalata Baruah
Children6

Early life

Semsonsing Ingti was the second child of the late Thengkursing Ingti and Madhobi Ruth Barua. Semsonsing Ingti was educated at Golaghat Mission High School. He matriculated at Bezbaruah High School, where he returned after completing his degree and becoming a teacher. He then studied at Cotton College, Guwahati (now Cotton University) and graduated from Murari Chand College, Sylhet in 1933.

Career

He was called Lametpo for being the first to write a book in Karbi.

Social and economic reformer

Semsonsing Ingti began by visiting inaccessible areas. Others would have chafed at going to such places, but he was determined to reach out and educate everyone in the world. He believed that only education would bring people from backwardness.

He battled social taboos common superstitions. For example, women were not allowed to walk beside or in front of their husbands and were forbidden to carry umbrellas, because it was considered disrespectful to their husbands. Although the Karbi people did not believe in the mistreatment of women, the social status of women remains unequal.

He spread knowledge on improving Jhum cultivation and asked farmers to live together rather than in small groups, so they could produce higher quantities of their produce.

Drinking beer is traditional in Karbi culture, but this was misinterpreted to him. Beer drinking was only for social occasions, but it had become a daily life habit for people at that time. He gave up drinking beer as an example for others.[1]

Works
  • Kalakha (table book)
  • Tomopuru
  • Bituso
  • Vopi

Death

The cause of the death of Semsonsing Ingti is not settled. His health had been deteriorating since he began working. His long travel from chilly Meghalaya to scorching Delhi. Walking mostly on foot and through jungle, he was already in financial trouble and could not afford medical care, which ultimately led to his demise.

According to his eldest sister, Junaki Sailabala Ingtipi, he had sunstroke while in Delhi.

gollark: "Oh yes, I will just go OUTSIDE the universe" - statements made by GTech™ exploration probe #15996-υ/4.
gollark: Where else would they go?
gollark: What? Of course they are in our universe.
gollark: Those aren't heaven and hell, silly.
gollark: > The temperature of Heaven can be rather accurately computed from available data. Our authority is Isaiah 30:26, “Moreover, the light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days.” Thus Heaven receives from the Moon as much radiation as we do from the Sun, and in addition seven times seven (49) times as much as the Earth does from the Sun, or fifty times in all. The light we receive from the Moon is one ten-thousandth of the light we receive from the Sun, so we can ignore that. With these data we can compute the temperature of Heaven. The radiation falling on Heaven will heat it to the point where the heat lost by radiation is just equal to the heat received by radiation, i.e., Heaven loses fifty times as much heat as the Earth by radiation. Using the Stefan-Boltzmann law for radiation, (H/E)^4 = 50, where E is the absolute temperature of the earth (-300K), gives H as 798K (525C). The exact temperature of Hell cannot be computed, but it must be less than 444.6C, the temperature at which brimstone or sulphur changes from a liquid to a gas. Revelations 21:8 says “But the fearful, and unbelieving … shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone.” A lake of molten brimstone means that its temperature must be at or below the boiling point, or 444.6C (Above this point it would be a vapor, not a lake.) We have, then, that Heaven, at 525C is hotter than Hell at 445C. – “Applied Optics”, vol. 11, A14, 1972

References
  1. "A Tribute to Semsonsing Ingti : Father of Karbi Nationalism", Dharamsing Teron, March 13, 2009


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