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Chapter Twenty-seven. Return to Nagaland |
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Some of the dependent villages have begun to make the payments in cash, but the Wakching men are not happy with this innovation because they fear that such a replacement of the traditional presentation of rice might ultimately lead to the discontinuation of the system. Although protection in war is no longer required, the tribute continues as a kind of rent for land occupied by the vassal villages but claimed by individual Wakching morung as their territory. Moreover, the men of morung receiving tribute from a dependent village still act as patrons and protectors, if people of that village are involved in disputes with members of another morung of Wakching or with a third village. |
