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NAGA HILLS

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 151 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NAGA HILLS , a See also:

district of See also:British See also:India in the Hills See also:division of Eastern See also:Bengal and See also:Assam. It forms See also:part of the mountainous borderland lying between the See also:Brahmaputra valley and Upper See also:Burma. See also:Area, 3070 sq. m.; pop. (1901) 102,402. Towards the N. See also:lie the Patkoi hills, over which British See also:jurisdiction has never been extended; but since 1904 the See also:southern See also:tract, formerly known as the " area of See also:political See also:control," has been incorporated in the district, thus extending its E. boundary from the Dikho to the Tizic See also:river. The whole See also:country forms a See also:wild expanse of See also:forest, See also:mountain and stream. The valleys are covered with dense See also:jungle, dotted with small lakes and marshes. See also:Coal is known to exist in many localities, as well as See also:iron ore and See also:petroleum. The administrative headquarters of the district are at Kohima (pop. 3093), which is garrisoned by two companies of native See also:infantry and a See also:battalion of military See also:police. The Dimapur-See also:Manipur See also:cart-road crosses the hills, connecting Kohima with the Assam-Bengal railway. Naga means " naked," and is the See also:term applied by the See also:Assamese to the wild tribes of the hills, of which the See also:chief clans are called Angami, Ao, Shota, Sema and Rengma.

These tribes have shown extraordinary obstinacy in their resistance to the British arms. Between 1832 and 1849 ten armed expeditions were despatched to chastise them, and from 1866 to 1887 there were eight more, a See also:

record which exceeds that of the most turbulent tribes on the See also:North-See also:West Frontier. Since 1892, however, little trouble has been experienced. See Naga Hills District Gazetteer (See also:Calcutta, 1905).

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