The World’s Biggest Family: Man With 39 Wives, 94 Children And 33 Grandchildren + PHOTOS

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.

Mr Chana said: “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.

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.

Feeling peckish? The senior ladies of the Chana family show what it
takes just to make a meal
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.

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 4,000 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.