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| name = Khokon
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| subdivision_name2 = [[Kangpokpi District|Kangpokpi]]
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| founder = Ngulthong Haokip
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| postal_code = 795114
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[[File:Khokon.jpg|thumb|Khokon VIllage in 2017|500 px]]

'''Khokon''' (also spelled as '''Khokawn''') is a [[Kuki people|Kuki]] village in the [[Senapati district]] of [[Manipur]], India.<ref name="2011 Census">{{cite web |title=Khokon |url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/pca/SearchDetails.aspx?Id=304465 |website=[[2011 Census of India]] |publisher=[[Government of India]] |accessdate=2 September 2017 |archiveurl=https://archive.is/20170902153245/http://www.censusindia.gov.in/pca/SearchDetails.aspx?Id=304465 |archivedate=2 September 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> As per Census of India 2011, there are 33 household with a total population of 189 persons, out of which 96 are male while 93 are female.<ref name="2011 Census" />

==Etymology==
The term Khokon means a zig-zag village.

==History==
Khokon village was established in the first decade of the 19th century. The original village located in [[Ukhrul district]] between Kachai and Phungtal villages. It was situated at the top of the mountain. During those years there was much rivalry among the [[Tangkhul]]s and headhunting was common among them. In such circumstances Khokon villagers due to their sheer physical strength and modern warfare they controlled the warring clans and villages in Ukhrul district, and as a result brought about the much needed peace and tranquility in the area. In post-independence India, the rising [[Naga nationalism]] and militancy led some of the Tangkhul nationalists to serve quit notice to Khokon villagers forgetting their contribution in the past. Their village was burnt down by Naga nationalists in 1961.<ref>The Plight of Indigenous Kuki People, p. 42, sl. no. 45, published by Kuki Movement for Human Rights (KUMHUR), 2009</ref> As a result they left their homesteads in 1961.<ref>PS Haokip, [[Zale'n-gam]]: The Kuki Nation, KNO Publication, 2008, p. 562.</ref>

The chief of Khokon Pu Ngulthong Haokip reestablish the village again in Saikul subdivision in 1979.

==Location==
Khokon village is located at 24°59'33.3"N latitude, and 93°59'47.8"E longitude. It is situated at a height of 790 m above sea level, and just about 35 Kilometres from [[Imphal]], the capital city of [[Manipur]].

==Literacy==
As per the Census of India 2011, Khokon has a literacy rate of 56.68%, out of which the male population is 61.05% and female is 52.17%.

==Church==
The people in the village had been largely converted during the 19th century, and they are affiliated to [[Kuki Baptist Convention]], a [[Baptist]] Kuki denomination in [[Northeast India]].

==Occupation==
Even though Khokonites were traditionally cultivators and animal rearers, with the passage of time they largely shifted to small businesses and other skilled professions such as knitting and yarning. The educated ones are engaged in teaching and research in various universities of [[India]] and also as medical practitioners. A sections of youths also migrated to different metropolitan cities in the country to work in various companies and BPOs.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Villages in Sadar Hills]]
[[Category:Villages in Kangpokpi district]]

{{Manipur-geo-stub}}

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