The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

published - extracts on Nagas from 'Assam Administration Report'

caption: Naga Hills district
caption: Relations with Tributary States and Frontier Affairs
caption: Crime dealt with politically; types of offences and punishments
medium: reports
location: Phesama Rephim Changsu (Changse) Are
production:
date: 1887
production:
date: 1888
text: 36. Excluding three unimportant cases in which individuals were concerned, the following table exhibits the offences by villages punished politically, with the nature of the punishments:-
text: __Description_of_offence______No._of___No._of____Amount_of_fine
______________________________cases___villages____imposed
____________________________________________________Rs
_Failure_to_supply_coolies______5________7__________220
_Riot___..._____..._____________1________1___________70
_Theft__..._____..._____________1________1___________50
_Releasing_prisoner_from
__police_custody_.._____________1________1__________100
_Intimidating_a_Government
__servant_______..._____________2________2__________450
_Raids__..._____..._____________6________9________1,267
_____________________________-----____-----______------
________________Total__________16_______21________2,157
_____________________________-----____-----______------
text: The case of riot was a fight between two khels at Phesama. The cases of intimidation were in connection with the assistance given by Rephim and Changse to Are in its feud with Nankum. The raiding cases are described above.
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