The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

typescript 'Journey to Nagaland', by Mildred Archer. An account of six months spent in the Naga Hills in 1947

caption: news of the end of Mahatma Gandhi's fast
medium: diaries
person: Gandhi
date: 18.9.1947
production:
person: Archer/ Mildred
date: 9.7.1947-4.12.1947
text: The other news is that Mahatma Gandhi's fast is over. After three days peace was restored in Calcutta and he has now left for Delhi. Once again his weapon has proved successful and it looks as if an ugly outbreak of communal trouble in Calcutta has been averted.