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The Worlds Largest Family.
Baktawng, Mizoram, India.
Ziona Chana lives with his 39 wives, 94 children, 14 daughters-in-law and 33 grand children in the mountainous region in north east India.
The family are self sufficient growing all their fruit and vegetables and rearing their own chickens and pigs.

Ziona farms the land and grows several crops. Here he is tending to his bananas.

The multi-storey house sits on the side of a mountain.

Ziona with some of his wives in his bedroom.

The laundry is dealt with by the younger members of the family. A pipe of clean water runs down the moutainside in to the huge washing baths.

Before mealtimes the food is collected by the women.

The sons butcher a pig that will feed everyone in the family.

The family is so hige that it takes several sittings to feed everyone. Children eat first.

Lalit Ram suffers with Neurofibromatosis that presents itself as constantly growing facial tumours.

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