Minz viewed tribes as being the indigenous people of India and opined that moves to alienate their landholding will cause destruction to the planet Earth itself.
[4] As for the attitudes of the indigenous peoples, Minz believed that the accommodative nature, communitarian ownership of properties and decision by consensus did not find favour with the colonial British India which even continues to this day with the powers that be.
The Gossner College, Ranchi was founded[1] by Nirmal Minz in 1971 where stories abound about its students topping the ranks.
[8] Nirmal pursued graduate studies earning a Bachelor of Arts in 1950[1] at Patna University.
[1] Similarly, in 2007, the Jesuit Indian Social Institute, New Delhi published a fetschrift in honour of Nirmal Minz with articles by the legendary Old Testament Scholar K. V. Mathew, Josepha Mariyānusa Kujūra, Sonajharia Minz and others[25] In 2017, he got Bhasha Samman by Sahitya Akademi for his works in Kurukh language.