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1839: Miles Bronson, the first missionary to the Naga Hills arrives in Namsang under Tirap District of present-day Arunachal Pradesh. 1851: The Battle of Kikrüma was fought on 11 and 12 February between the forces of the British East India Company and the Eastern Angamis. [2]
The history of the Nagas dates back centuries, but first appear in written records of Ahom kingdom during the medieval period of Indian history. Aside from developing contacts with the Ahom kingdom, which was established in 1228 in Assam , the Nagas generally lived an isolated existence from the outside world.
Clark with his wife, Mary. Edward Winter Clark (E. W. Clark) (February 25, 1830 [1] – March 18, 1913) was an American missionary.Clark is known for his pioneering missionary work in Nagaland and for his work on transcribing the spoken Ao language into a written script.
Christianity was introduced in the erstwhile Naga Hills to expand colonialism as well driven by missionary fervour which failed to garner numbers in the Brahmaputra Valley. As the new religion started making inroads in the Naga Hills, British administrators-turned-anthropologists started criticising the missionaries for destroying distinctive ...
William Pettigrew (5 January 1869 – 19 January 1943) was a British Christian missionary who went to India in 1890, eventually brought western education in Manipur and introducing Jesus Christ to the Tangkhul Naga tribe, inhabiting Ukhrul district and he became the main catalyst for the surge in current christian population in Manipur.
Making salt in this process took at least 6 men, wrote Bronson. It took one man to attend the arch, one to bring the brine, and four to gather wood. There was controversy over the land-rights to the wells and Bronson supported the idea of the government taking on the manufacture of salt, with Nagas working for the government. [1]
The Nagas in Nagaland should unanimously support them to facilitate their development along with other Naga communities." In April the ceasefire was extended for another year. Meanwhile the months that followed saw a recrudescence of the fratricidal fighting between NSCN (K) cadres and those belonging to its rival NSCN (IM), as well as a series ...
Naga Story: The Other Side of Silence is a 2003 documentary film by Indian film maker Gopal Menon. The film provides an introduction to the history of the Struggle by Naga people in North- East frontier of the Indian subcontinent, and documents the human rights abuses suffered by the Naga people in more than 50 years of the existence of Independent India. [2]