Nagaland

American

[nah-guh-land] / ˈnɑ gəˌlænd /

noun

a state in NE India. 6,366 sq. mi. (16,488 sq. km). Kohima.

Nagaland British

/ ˈnɑːɡəˌlænd /

noun

a state of NE India: formed in 1962 from parts of Assam and the North-East Frontier Agency; inhabited chiefly by Naga tribes; consists of almost inaccessible forested hills and mountains (the Naga Hills ); shifting cultivation predominates. Capital: Kohima. Pop: 1 988 636 (2001). Area: 16 579 sq km (6401 sq miles)

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Nagaland, a largely Christian state wedged between Myanmar and Bangladesh, is home to a people spread across neighbouring Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh and Assam states.

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Muivah himself was born in Manipur - a reminder that the Naga identity extends far beyond Nagaland's borders.

From BBC

By his teens, Muivah was already a Naga nationalist, singing "God Bless My Nagaland" at school and questioning why his people lived in "humiliation" under the colonial government.

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He returned to Nagaland after five years.

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Last month, Ellen Konyak was shocked to discover that a 19th-Century skull from the north-eastern Indian state of Nagaland was up for auction in the UK.

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