The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

manuscript - Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Naga diary one

caption: compensation paid to Nagas for transfer of land in plains
medium: diaries
person: Blah
ethnicgroup: Konyak
location: Wakching
date: 30.7.1936
production:
person: Furer-Haimendorf
date: 2.6.1936-11.7.1936
note: translated from german by Dr Ruth Barnes
acquirer:
person: School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London
text: Towards noon Mr Blah arrived and the resulting commotion of course disrupted all further questioning. Among other things here he divides the annual compensation which the government pays to some villages including those beyond the border, for the transfer of land in the plains formerly under their control.