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173Marriage is usually by parental arrangement andinvolves the payment of a bride price. Such institutions asthe community house for bachelors and many features oftheir religion link them with the Mizos, Kukis, Nagas, aIJ' Aother hill tribes of Assam.3Today there are more than 500,000 Kacharis, whoprefer to be called Dimasas.The Christian populationtotals about two thousand people.There is an urgent needto bring the Gospel to these people.The Kacharis are opento the Gospel and are the least evangelized tribe in Assam.Evangelist Thangkeng is the missionary in chargeamong the Dimasas of Assam.Evangelist Thangkeng waR aveteran of the Second World War with the Indian army.Hewas seriously wounded in the battle against the Japanese inBurma in 1945.One of the wounds in his heel has neverhealed.Evangelist Thangkeng had astrange spiritual experiencebefore he joined the army.He was converted while hewas studying in the mission primary school in Assam.Heclaims to have been given healing power from Godafter hisconversion.He said he had asked the Lord to grant him thegift for healing as there were many sick people who sufferedmuchin his village.His father died early in his childhood so he livedwith his mother.One day while working in the fields Jhurn,his mother, fell from a high