Nagaland Became The State Of India
1st December 1963: Nagaland became the 16th state of India. The beautiful north-eastern mountainous state of Nagaland came into being on December 1,1963. A complicated series of events over 150 years culminated in Nagaland becoming the 16th state of the Indian Union. Much of the area that is currently Nagaland and Assam came under Burmese rule in 1816.Ten years later the British East India Company took over Assam and started steadily expanding its control over the Naga Hills. Since the Nagas, as the tribes of the Nagaland are collectively known, had little recorded history, knowledge about them before the British era is limited. According to some accounts, the Nagas belong to the Indo-Mongoloid group and migrated from the east. References to tribes that could possibly include the Nagas appear in Vedic and other ancient texts. Such as Yajurveda, hundreds of years before Christ, and people are referred to as 'Kiratas'. When the ...