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Chapter twenty. The Land and the People |
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political consequences of alienation of land |
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The political consequences were unfortunate. The alienation of their treasured land, unwitting though it was, set the Zemi against the administration from the start. The more Government tried, as it thought, to hold a just balance between the tribes, the more it seemed to the Zemi to be tilted unfairly against them, and the more it seemed to the Government that the Zemi were difficult and intransigent. No matter how they valued - and they did - roads, markets and protection at last from the Angami terror, still the land, the lost and needed land, was a rankling thorn. |
