A Study of the Immigration of Nagas to North-East India and their Present location (With Special reference to Nagaland)

Abstract

“They are fine people,of whome their country is proud ,strong and self reliant with the free and independent outlook characteristics of high landers everywhere ,good to look  at with and splendid dances and a  love song “1

Here ,who are fine people ,who are good to look at and who are high landers ? Without fail they are Nagas. So Dr. Verrier  Elwin commented on Nagas like this.And thus few people evoke such fascination as the high landers grouped under the named “Naga”.

Nagaland state was inaugurated as the sixteen state of India on 1^st December 1963. The state consist of eleven administrative district inhabited by 16 (sixteen0 major tribes along with other sub tribes.

In India Naga tribes found Manipur ,Assam, Nagaland and the Tirup district of Arunachal Pradesh. The prominent Naga writer R.B. Thohe  Pou commented on Nagas inhabit in four states in India and the Western parts of Myanmar. The various naga tribes are as follows:

Aao ,Angami,Anai,Chakhesang Heime, ,Konyak,,Kuki, lotha, Mao, Maram,  Nokte,Pochuri,  Rengma, sangtam ,Sema, , Sumi, Tangkhul, Thangal, Wancho, Yimchungir, zeliangrong and others.

It is therefore ,remarkable to know that nagas are notconfined only to the state of Nagaland , but are also found in their neighbor states as well as in the republic of Burma.

B.M.Das attempted about the route directions and  different ethnic origins. According to das ,” They came from different directions and at different times by various routes of migration, namely the northern passes of Bhutan and Tibet ,Assam-Myanmar routes on the eastern side and the valleys on the western direction formed by the Ganges and the Brahmaputra”

R.B. Thohe Pou had attempted to study on naga culture and customs ,their origin, etymology of the word  “ Naga” . many scholars also believed that Nagas came from Myanmar. The author R.B.Thohe Pou attempted to study exhaustively the possible route of nagas immigration from mainland of China tonaga Hills.