THIS WAS THE NEWS, JUST 4 DAYS AGO,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1358654/The-worlds-biggest-family-Ziona-Chan-39-wives-94-children-33-grandchildren.html
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--- In gujaraticlub@yahoogroups.com, Arvind Patel <arvind.arvind1uk@...> wrote:
>
> The world's biggest family: The man with 39 wives, 94 children and 33
> grandchildren
>
>
>
> - Ziona Chana lives with all of them in a 100-room mansion
> - His wives take it in turns to share his bed
> - It takes 30 whole chickens just to make dinner
>
> He is head of the world's biggest family - and says he is 'blessed' to have
> his 39 wives.
>
> Ziona Chana also has 94 children, 14-daughters-in-law and 33 grandchildren.
>
> They live in a 100-room, four storey house set amidst the hills of Baktwang
> village in the Indian state
> of Mizoram, where the wives sleep in giant communal dormitories.
>
> [image: The full monty: The Ziona family in its entirety with all 181
> members]
> *The full monty: The Ziona family in its entirety with all 181 members*
>
> [image: You treat this place like a hotel: With 100 rooms the Ziona mansion
> is the biggest concrete structure in the hilly village of Baktawng]
> You treat this place like a hotel: With 100 rooms the Ziona mansion is the
> biggest concrete structure in the hilly village of Baktawng
>
> Mr Chana told the Sun: 'Today I feel like God's special child. He's given me
> so many people to look after.
>
> 'I consider myself a lucky man to be the husband of 39 women and head of the
> world's largest family.'
> The family is organised with almost military discipline, with the oldest
> wife Zathiangi organising her fellow partners to
> perform household chores such as cleaning, washing and preparing meals.
> One evening meal can see them pluck 30 chickens, peel 132lb of potatoes and
> boil up to 220lb of rice.
>
> Coincidentally, Mr Chana is also head of a sect that allows members to take
> as many wives as he wants.
> [image: Feeling peckish? The senior ladies of the Chana family show what it
> takes just to make a meal]
> *Feeling peckish? The senior ladies of the Chana family show what it takes
> just to make a meal*
>
> [image: The wives and I: Mr Ziona Chana poses with his 39 wives at their
> home in Baktawang, Mizoram, India]
> The wives and I: Mr Ziona Chana poses with his 39 wives at their home in
> Baktawang, Mizoram, India
>
> He even married ten women in one year, when he was at his most prolific, and
> enjoys his own double bed while his wives have to make do with communal
> dormitories.
> He keeps the youngest women near to his bedroom with the older members of
> the family sleeping further away - and there is a rotation system for who
> visits Mr Chana's bedroom.
> Rinkmini, one of Mr Chana's wives who is 35 years old, said: 'We stay around
> him as he is the most important person in the house. He is the most handsome
> person in the village.
>
> She says Mr Chana noticed her on a morning walk in the village 18 years ago
> and wrote her a letter asking for her hand in marriage.
> [image: Shared bedroom: A look inside the four-storey mansion, Chhuanthar
> Run - The House of the New Generation]
> *Shared bedroom: A look inside the four-storey mansion, Chhuanthar Run - The
> House of the New Generation*
>
> Another of his wives, Huntharnghanki, said the entire family gets along
> well. The family system is reportedly based on
> 'mutual love and respect'
>
> And Mr Chana, whose religious sect has 4,00 members, says he has
> not stopped looking for new wives.
>
> 'To expand my sect, I am willing to go even to the U.S. to marry,' he said.
>
> One of his sons insisted that Mr Chana, whose grandfather also had many
> wives, marries the poor women from
> the village so he can look after them.
>
>
>
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