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: (i) The Trans-Dikhu tribes
medium: reports
production:
date: 1897
production:
date: 1898
text: 60. Our relations with these tribes have been friendly throughout the year and they have refrained from raiding into our territory, so no interference with them has been called for. Head-taking is as prevalent as ever among them and the Deputy Commissioner Naga Hills fears that it will not cease until we assume some sort of control over them; but the Chief Commissioner is not prepared at present to sanction the extension of the system of political control to the tract east of the Dikhu.