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views of Sir Akbar Hydari about Naga independence |
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'We can't have any of this Verrier Elwin nonsense - anthropologist's museum. They have got to come in. |
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'If they revolt we shall shoot them up. It will be a pity but it will not be our fault' - |
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'We couldn't give the Nagas residual powers. A big industrialist would buy them off as he liked' - |
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'They can have a council at the district board level. A Naga Government is out of the question'. |
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'We can't have lots of little Governments'. |
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'I would like an Assam like the United Kingdom where English, Welsh and Scotch are all one. This is the best I can do for them'. |
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'If they don't accept it, they must take the consequences'. |
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'I believe in briefing my officers. Montgomery you know always told his second lieutenant what was in his mind. I rely on you to make the Nagas understand'. |
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- I came away with sick despair - this was the directive - no one had been consulted - our views mattered nothing - the Nagas also did not matter - Mills had also not been asked - Hydari had never even seen the Hills - a little minor autonomy that did not matter - and the rest to the Plains. |
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Lambert - interview with Nagas. Hydari - 'slow and cautious fusion' - 'no Naga dislike of Assamese'. |
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The Naga appeal - Churchill's secretary replied that Churchill had carefully noted their views. |
