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chapter one - introduction |
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description of Naga Hills in general |
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footnotes indicated by boxes within square brackets |
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From the eastern end of the Himalayas the mountain chain of the Patkoi runs south towards the Indian Ocean, which it reaches at last in shrunken form as the Arakan Yomas. On either side of the chain irregular hills branch out to make a belt of broken country separating Assam and Bengal from Burma. In the northern part of these frontier hills the Brahmaputra Valley, a long, narrow salient of low-lying plain, runs back deeply into them; to the south of the valley is a massive block of tangled hills. This block is the present home of the Naga tribes. |
