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 Ahmos (Who would rule for Six centuries and give Assam its name) arrived in the area in the 13th Century, the Nagas were already masters of the Hills.


 

After India became Independent, the Naga areas continued to be a part of Assam province. Some Naga nationalist groups stepped up their demand for a political entity comprising several Naga-Populated areas. With the situation turning violent, the central government decided to send in the Army in 1995. Eventually, talks between the Central government and Naga tribes led to the formation of the Naga Hills Tuensang Area (NHTA), comprising the Naga Hills of Assam and the Tuensang frontier. The NHTA was made into a union territory but there was more unrest in the area. 

In April 1962, the Nagaland security Regulation, 1962, for the suppression of subversive activities, maintenance of essential supplies and services, and control of military requirements were passed. In August 1962, a bill was moved in the Indian Parliament for creating a state of Nagaland. Indian President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan inaugurated the state of Nagaland at Kohima on December 1, 1963

The state has 11 districts - Kohima, Mokokchung, Wokha, Phek, Tuensang, Zunheboto, Kiphire, Mon, Dimapur, Longleng and Peren. According to the 2011 Census, Nagaland's population is around 20 lakh. Nagaland has 16 major tribes - AO, Chakhesang, Angami, Dimasa Kachari, Chang, Konyak, Kuki, Lotha, Pochury, Rengma, Sangtam, Sumi, Zeliang, Yimchunger, Phom, and Khiamniungan.



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