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{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}
{{Use Indian English|date=July 2019}}
{{Contains special characters|Meitei}}
{{Infobox ethnic group
|group = Maram
|population =
|image = "Maram" written in Meitei script.jpg
|image_caption = "Maram" written in [[Meitei script]]
|region1 = Maram,Senapati District, Manipur, India
|pop1 = 10,911 (1988).37,300(2011)<ref name="Joseph_1992">{{cite book | title = Maram Nagas, a socio-cultural study | author = Joseph Athickal | edition = illustrated | publisher = Mittal | year = 1992 | isbn = 978-81-7099-354-4 | pages = 2–5 }}</ref>
|languages = [[Maram language]] ([[first language|L1]]) <br /> [[Meitei language]] ([[second language|L2]])<ref>{{Cite web |title=Meitei {{!}} Ethnologue |url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/mni/ |access-date=2023-05-03 |website=[[Ethnologue]] |language=en}}</ref>
|religions = [[Christianity]], [[Animism]]
|related = [[Meitei people]], other [[Naga people]]
|footnotes =
}}
The '''Maram people''', also known as the '''Maram Naga''', are a [[Tibeto-Burmese]] [[Naga people|Naga]] [[ethnic group]] inhabiting the large portion of [[Senapati district]] in the [[Northeast India]]n state of [[Manipur]].
They use [[Meitei language]] as their [[second language]] (L2) according to the [[Ethnologue]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Meitei {{!}} Ethnologue |url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/mni/ |access-date=2023-05-03 |website=[[Ethnologue]] |language=en}}</ref>

== Demographics ==
[[File:Stone Erections of Willong Khullen.jpg|thumb|left|[[Menhir]]s at Willong Khullen. Willong is the second largest village of Marams, according to the 1992 figures.]]
Marams are mainly found in the Senapti district of Manipur. According to the 1992 figures, the Maram Khullen was the largest village of Marams, followed by Willong.<ref name="Joseph_1992"/>

== Culture ==
The Marams are known for wet-rice cultivation on terraces of the hill slopes and the very small alluvial plain of the flat landform created by the deposition of sediment near river areas because of this labor-intensive cultivation, land is the most important form of property among them. This allows them to cultivate the same plot year after year however, to a small extent, on slash-and-burn cultivation is still done in small pocket mainly by the marams settled in southern region.
<ref>{{cite web | url = http://senapati.nic.in/festival.htm | title = Festivals | publisher = District Administration, Senapati District, Manipur | access-date = 2011-10-24 }}</ref>
<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.e-pao.net/epSubPageExtractor.asp?src=manipur.Ethnic_Races_Manipur.Ethnic_Races_Sanathong.MARAM|title=MARAM}}</ref>

==References==
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== Bibliography ==

* {{cite book | title = Maram Nagas, a socio-cultural study | author = Joseph Athickal | edition = illustrated | publisher = Mittal | year = 1992 | isbn = 978-81-7099-354-4 }}

{{Naga tribes}}
{{Hill tribes of Northeast India}}
{{Authority control}}

[[Category:Naga people]]
[[Category:Meitei as a second or foreign language]]
[[Category:Scheduled Tribes of Manipur]]
[[Category:Ethnic groups in Northeast India]]
[[Category:Ethnic groups in South Asia]]

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Ajay Kumar at 13:09, 31 August 2023