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Kholar

Kholar is the local name for kidney beans or rajma. The scientific name can be jotted down as Phaseolus vulgaris, this varieties of the common beans is one of the traditional food for some of the Naga tribes in Nagaland, having its base and origin in the Yimchunger tribe’s area in the parts of Tuensang and Kiphire districts of Nagaland. There are many myths about as to how the name Kholar was coined or termed. However, according to a Yimchunger Folkfore, a man named Khomong found the seeds in the foothills of the Mount Saramati bordering present day Myanmar and that is how he named kholar based on the combination of two word ‘kho’ after his name and ‘Laru’ meaning rich or plenty in the local dialect of the Yimchunger Naga. To sum up the kholar means the ‘rich curry of Khomong’.