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The Telegraph | Patricia Mukhim | Dec 21
Monalisa Changkija, who edits the Nagaland Page, is facing a death threat for expressing her considered views on matters relating to village administration in Nagaland. Changkija points to the uneven contours and the convoluted logic that guided the decision of the Ao Senden (a conglomerate of village heads of the Ao community) to ostracise Changki village from its umbrella of sub-tribes. Like every writer from the Northeast, Changkija, too, has depended largely on oral narratives since written accounts are scanty.
Nagaland's own history is replete with inconsistencies. Naga history is a carefully constructed, vigorously defended wall. Elders of "Naga" society have tried to cram their settled opinions into the minds of their young adults. Historians outside Nagaland have contested the Naga claim to a unique history since every tribe in the region started its journey as a village republic. The very word "Naga" is fraught with contradictions. But today it is a word that is frozen in the national consciousness and has also been internalised by the different tribal groups who have now come under the "Naga" rubric.
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