The 1959 mautam killed an estimated fifteen thousand people. The delhi response — dismissive, slow, procedurally indifferent — is the origin of everything that followed.
The mizo national famine front formed to organise relief. Once relief had passed, it became the mizo national front. In 1966 the MNF declared independence. The indian air force bombed aizawl in response — the only time, before or since, that the indian state has carried out aerial bombing of its own city.
Through the late sixties and into the seventies, villages were regrouped into protected and progressive villages — a concentration policy, traditional bamboo houses burned, communities relocated away from the forest they had lived in. The insurgency ran for twenty years. The 1986 mizo accord brought peace and made mizoram a full state of the indian union.
What was lost is only partly countable. The zawlbuk was already gone by then. The skills went next.