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first attempts by the British to contact the Nagas |
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The country of the Angami Nagas was first visited by British officers in 1832, "when Captains Pemberton and Jenkins endeavoured to open a communication through these hills between Manipur and Assam. They met with a most determined resistance, and had literally to fight their way through to Nowgong. Later on in the same year Lieutenant Gordon, accompanied by a powerful force under Raja Gambir Sing, explored a second route through the hills, and the Raja entertained designs of subjugating all the wild tribes between Assam and Manipur that there might be a free path for commerce into his secluded little kingdom. |
