|
Four NPF legislators of Manipur--- L. Dikho (48 Mao), Samuel Risom (44 Ukhrul), ST Victor Nunghlung (41 Chandel) and Dr. V. Alexander Pao (47 Karong) have resigned from the membership of the Manipur Legislative Assembly on September 4, 2015. The term of the current Manipur assembly ends on March 2017.
In a joint communiqué, the four NPF members said their resignations was a serious and severe protest against the “consistent, cruel, crude and unpardonable anti-tribal and anti-Naga attitude, approach and actions of the Ibobi government, which they said, was evident from the manner in which legislative bills such as ‘Protection of Manipur People Bill, 2015; the Manipur Land Revenue and Land Reforms (Seventh Amendment) Bill, 2015 and the Resolution on the Indo-Naga Peace Accord’. |
|
Nagalim Voice Bulletin September 2015 |
|
UGC Notice reg.: Approved list of Institutions Recommended / Not-Recommended under the scheme of Community Colleges by Expert Committee during the Interface meetings held from 16 - 23 May, 2015 |
|
The Pangsha Letters: A step back in time from the eyes of a British Administrator. An Expedtion in 1936 to Rescue Slaves in the Naga Hills This account of an expedition into unknown territory to rescue children who had been captured to sell as slaves, takes the form of letters which my father Philip Mills wrote daily to his wife while he was away on this dangerous journey. “There's no doubt of the risk,” he wrote, “It is about the nastiest job I have ever had to tackle. Pangsha will certainly fight I am afraid. Their weapon is cross-bows with a range of 200 to 250 yards and poisoned arrows. If you hear nothing before you get this letter you will know I am all right, for I shall be back in friendly territory long before you get it.” He did return safely, and managed to rescue all the slaves and reunite them with their families. As Deputy Commissioner (DC) Kohima, Mills was in overall charge of the expedition, and took with him 150 men of the Assam Rifles commanded by Major Bill Williams, and Smith, Sub-divisional Officer (SDO), Mokokchung. He also invited his good friend and fellow anthropologist Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf along, who was a superb photographer. However, the fact that Mills was successful was due in no small measure to the invaluable contribution of his old friend Chingmak, chief of Chingmei, whose village was on the edge of the hostile area dominated by the warlike, powerful village of Pangsha. This was near the border with Burma but was so remote it was not on any maps. Chingmak had first met Mills when he was S.D.O. At Mokokchung many years earlier and they had been firm friends ever since. |
|
Abstract Understanding the origin and meaning of nomenclature of the ‘people’ or term referring to the ‘people’ is as important as identity of the people itself. At times, terms and nomenclatures of the ‘people’ are given by non locals. In the Naga context, the term ‘Naga’ itself is non-local, nomenclature of its federating tribes like Tangkhul is non-local, and names of many Tangkhul villages like Ukhrul, Tushen, Lambui, and Hundung etc. are given by non local administrators, missionaries, anthropologists and neighbouring communities among others. The core focus of the paper is to understand the origin of the terms WUNG, HAO and TANGKHUL. It also brings in the hypothesis of ‘Tangkhul-Meitei Origin’ while attempting to understand the people in brief. One of the main arguments of the paper is that the term HAO is the original or traditional nomenclature of the Tangkhul Nagas. |
|
THE IMPACT OF MODERNIZATION ON THE NAGAS: ANTHROPOLOGICAL ANAYSIS AND THEOLOGICAL RESPONSE. SUBMITTED TO STEVE YBARROLA, PH.D, ANTHROPOLOGY FOR CHRISTIAN MISSION
|
|
Pettigrew’s Children: Tracing the History of Print Culture in Tangkhul Language by AS Shimreiwung
|
|
NAGA HILLS AND MANIPUR: Socio - Economic History by B.C Allen 1905 |