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Describe about Nagas revolt.
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The Naga Revolt
By GEORGE PATTERSON

WI 'm Indian prestige and influence deteriorating along the Himalayan border

China has launched a proposal for a 'Confedera- tion of Himalayan States'—to include Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, the North-East Frontier Area and Nagaland--which is having widespread acceptance.

The most interesting part of this proposal is the offer to include Nagaland, as this is the first official sign of China's interest in this Hima- layan people, who have been at war with India now for seven years, and it raises the intriguing question—will Nagaland become an Indian State or a Chinese Province? For the Indian Govern- ment have a Bill on the current agenda of Parliament to make Nagaland India's sixteenth State, while a delegation of the bitterly opposed 'rebel' or 'patriot' Nagas, who have successfully withstood an Indian attempts at domination, w as on Tuesday allowed to enter the UK to protest against India's militarily-enforced annexation of their territory. If they fail here and at the UN they say they will turn to China for help. If they are forced into this unwanted decision by Indian military pressure and Western unconcern it will be a greater tragedy for India and the West than the loss of Tibet, for it w ill bring China right on to the plains of India at her most strategic—and weakest—point.

There is no simple explanation of 'the Naga problem,' either in its genesis, in its growth, or in its possibly catastrophic implications. The Nagas are only one group of several tribes scat- tered along India's north-eastern frontier, be- tween Bhutan, Tibet and Burma. The Nagas themselves have no common boundary with 'the Tibet region of China,' but they have with Burma, and in the tangle of jungles, 10,000-foot Himalayan mountains and associated tribes- assOciated by Mongolian extraction and common hatred of India—it would not be difficult for them to establish contact with the Chinese occu- pation forces only one hundred miles to the north once the desire to do so was expressed on both sides.

There are approximately one million Nagas, scattered through sixteen different tribes, and some of these are 'subject Nagas' and some are 'free Nagas.' This is only the beginning of the confusion which bedevils the Naga problem. For the 'subject Nagas' are those who came under Britain's jurisdiction after military annexation of this limited part of the Naga territory in 1879, while the 'free Nagas' are those who continued to roam the adjoining territory outside of any- one's jurisdiction.

But between 1929, when the Simon Com- mission visited India to investigate Indian Con- stitutional Reform, and 1947, when India gained its independence, the representatives of both the 'subject Nagas' and 'free Nagas' demanded to be left out of any arrangement with India, as they were not Indians. It is important to recall that the Indian Congress leaders supported the 1930s Naga revolt against Britain, with Mr. Nehru at that time sending encouraging messages to the Naga woman leader of the revolt, Gaidiliu. But the NagasL-including the legendary Gaidi- liu, who, still alive, recently refused an invita- tion to go to Delhi because of India's actions against the Nagas in recent years—wanted the Indians even less than they wanted the British.

However, while some were in favour of complete independence immediately, others supported a proposal for a Ten-Year Agreement with India, and a majority of these 'moderates' on the Naga National Council (the Naga policy-making body based on their village and tribal councils), voted in favour of this approach. On February 2, 1947, the Naga National Council formally demanded an interim government 'for a period of ten years to the Nagas (British subject Nagas) and to make provisions for running it, at the end of which the Nagas will choose their own form of government.'

The preamble to the Agreement stated :

That the right of the Nagas to develop them- selves according to their freely expressed wishes is recognised....

The general principle is accepted that what the Naga National Council is prepared to pay for, the Naga National Council should control. This principle will apply equally to the work done as well as staff employed.