prior to the establishment of darchawi, the darlong people resided in the western side of deo river (nelkang tuipui), "ramdingpa's village" and "lalvana's village". the establishment of darchawi village can be attributed to evangelist zatuaha's prayer of establishing a christian village for the darlong people who were driven out of "saidara khua" by their chief for embracing christianity. evangelist zatuaha and six other darlongs from "saidara khua" wandered to find a suitable place. they finally halted at this location on 23 january 1923, and named it 'darchawi' (literally meaning 'raise the bells'). over a period of 90 years, a sea change has taken place as people from different communities such as the darlong, tripuri, garo, lushai, bengali, etc. irrespective of caste or creed settled here.