INDEPENDENT NAGA
Separate State In India Union (N.Z. Press Association—Cownghn NEW DELHI, July 31 The Indian Government today agreed to give the Naga tribesmen of North-east India a separate autonomous State within the Indian union, after talks with a 19-man Naga tribal delegation. The leader of the delegation, Dr. Inkingliba Ao, said Nagas would immediately set up a provisional government at KohimaA proper Naga State would be formed after the necessary bill was passed by the Indian Parliament. It was understood thtf proposed Naga State would cover about 4000 square miles of wild, mountainous country bordering Burma, inhabited by about 350,000 Nagas. The agreement marks the end of a 32-year agitation for a separate State by the Nagas, primitive but fiercely independent tribesmen who until a few years ago indulged in head-hunting raids on neighbouring villages. A group of extremist Nagas have been waging guerrilla war against the Indian Government since 1953, when they announced the formation of a “republic of free Nagaland.”
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29272, 2 August 1960, Page 12
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