Report of Frontier Areas Committee of Enquiry, 1947, Rangoon, Part I p.10

A section of the Zomi who have migrated into Burma from the Tibeto Plateau almost in a straight line down south, are to be found from the Somra Hill Tracts down to Cape Negrais. The Zomi, then living mostly in north western Burma, are known to have social intercourse with the Burmese at the time of the Kingdom of Pagan (1044-1287). There were Zomi levies in the armies of King Bayinnaung of Toungoo 1551-81 and of King Alaungpaya of Ava 1752-60. Local tradition has it that the ancestors of some of the people forming the principal tribes ascended the Zolands from the Kale-kabaw and Myitta River Valleys. There is a great deal of social intercourse between the Zomi and the Burmese. Many Zomi living in the Pakokku, Thanyetmyo, Prome and Henzada districts have become Burmanised, being mostly Buddhists. Even in respect of the Zomi in the Chin Hills district those who have inhabit the southern portion and those areas adjacent to the Kale-Kabaw Valley are in close touch with the Burmese.