The Naga Hills, reaching a height of around 3,826 metres (12,552 ft), lie on the border of India and Myanmar.[citation needed] They are part of a complex...
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Naga Hills District may refer to: Hkamti District, a district in far northern Sagaing Division of Burma Naga Hills District, British India, that was later...
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Nagaland (redirect from Naga Hills Tuensang Area)
domain over the whole of South Asia, including the Naga Hills. The first Europeans to enter the hills were Captain Francis Jenkins and Lieutenant Robert...
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director Naga Hills, a group of hills on the India-Myanmar border Nagaland, a state in eastern India Naga District, Mie, a former district Naga District...
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integration with the Naga Hills region further north. This caused displacement of Kukis to the southern districts as well as the central hill regions during...
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evolved out of the Naga Hills District Tribal Council, an organization established in 1945 by the Deputy Commissioner of the Naga Hills district. The group...
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The Naga Hills District was a former district of the Assam province of British India. Located in the Naga Hills, it was mainly inhabited by the Naga ethnic...
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leading to the slow disappearance of indigenous music from the Naga hills. Folk dances of the Nagas are mostly performed in groups in synchronized fashion, by...
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of the Naga Hills District, established the Naga Hills District Tribal Council as a forum of the various Naga groups. This body replaced the Naga Club,...
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Meitei people in Nagaland (redirect from Manipuri campaign of Naga hills)
the whole Naga Hills with his military power of Manipur Levy. He defeated the Angami Naga tribes of Kohima. To mark his victory over the Naga people, the...
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Havildar Joginder Singh (section Naga Hills Encounter)
Sikh Regiment. The Naga Insurgency was at its peak during this time with insurgents hidden at various positions throughout the hills with the aim to suppress...
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(Kamrup, Nagaon, Darrang, Sibsagar and Lakhimpur), Khasi-Jaintia Hills, Garo Hills, Naga Hills, Goalpara and Sylhet-Cachar comprising about 54,100 sq miles...
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the Naga hills. The first missionary in the Naga hills is believed to be Rev. Miles Bronson in 1839, who stayed for a short period among Nocte Naga in...
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self-administered zone in the Naga Hills area of Sagaing Region of Myanmar. Its administrative seat is the town of Lahe. The Naga Self-Administered Zone was...
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Nagas in the Battle of Khonoma in 1880, establishing control over the Naga Hills. Using their divide and rule approach, they introduced education, Christianity...
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have numbered 20,000 in the North Cachar Hills (present-day Dima Hasao district), 15,000 in the Naga Hills (present-day Nagaland), 30,000–40,000 in Manipur...
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Ursula Graham Bower (redirect from Naga Queen)
1914 – 12 November 1988), was one of the pioneer anthropologists in the Naga Hills between 1937 and 1946 and a guerrilla fighter against the Japanese in...
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Kamrup, Lakhimpur, Nagaon, Sivasagar, Jayantia parganas, Garo hills, Lushai hills, Naga hills, Sylhet and NEFA. The British India protectorate 4 princely...
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Tracts (present-day Arunachal Pradesh), the Naga Hills district (present-day Nagaland) and the Lushai Hills district (present-day Mizoram) were designated...
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troops were already stationed in the Naga Hills by then. During a Constituent Assembly debate, Singh rebuked the Nagas for seeking Independence. He pointed...
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months. One such act passed on 11 September 1958 was applicable to the Naga Hills, then part of Assam. In the following decades it spread, one by one, to...
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major Naga ethnic group native to the northeast Indian state of Nagaland. Anthropological study of the Sümis is documented in the book The Sema Nagas by...
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maintaining law and order and related issues. On 1 December 1957, the Naga Hills District of Assam and Tuensang Frontier Division of the North-East Frontier...
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structures and beliefs. Christianity was introduced in the erstwhile Naga Hills to expand colonialism as well driven by missionary fervour which failed...
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to Naga Hills District of United Assam state until 1962 after which it became part of present day Nagaland. The division was renamed as Tuensang Naga Hills...
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the first school in the Naga hills region of North-East India. Mary Clark documented their experience in Assam and the Naga Hills in A Corner in India.[citation...
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state of Jodhpur was merged into India. He took part in operations in the Naga Hills and also in the 1961 Indian annexation of Goa. During the Sino-Indian...
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raised 1st Battalion, the Assam Regiment and a few platoons from the 3rd (Naga Hills) Battalion of the paramilitary Assam Rifles. Late in March 161st Brigade...
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being surrounded by hills on all sides. This is due to temperature inversions during winter nights when cold air descends from the hills into the valleys...
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In various Asian religious traditions, the Nagas (Sanskrit: नाग, romanized: Nāga) are a divine, or semi-divine, race of half-human, half-serpent beings...
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