181 Members in a FAMILY!!

Ziona Chana, 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. If you are good at math you will find 181 members in this family which is considered as the biggest family in the world.

They live in a 100-room, four story house set amidst the hills of Baktwang village in the Indian state of Mizoram, where the wives sleep in giant communal dormitories. “I feel like God’s special child. He’s given me so many people to look after.” Mr. Chana said.

Also he says that, “I consider myself a lucky man to be the husband of 39 women and head of the world’s largest family.”

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.

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 manage it 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. Also 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.

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 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” This is what 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.

Ziona Chana lives with all of them (180 members of family plus himself) in a 100-room mansion.

His 39 wives take it in turns to share his bed.