The Nagas

1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Chapter I. Distribution and Movement of the Population. Naga Hills reports Mullan C.S. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 The population of the Naga Hills has increased b 20,043 or by 12.6 per cent. The figure, however, includes 6,820 persons censused for the first time in the Melomi-Primi..
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Mills J.P. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Chapter I. Distribution and Movement of the Population. Naga Hills J.P. Mills' analysis of the census reports Mills J.P. Mullan C.S. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Nevertheless, Mr J.P. Mills, I.C.S., the Deputy Commissioner of the Naga Hills, is not at all satisfied with ..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Chapter I. Distribution and Movement of the Population. Naga Hills reports Mullan C.S. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 [Summary of Subsidiary Table 1. Density, water-supply and crops] Naga Hills Mean density per square mile in 1931 - 42 Percentage of total area which is cultivated (..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Chapter I. Distribution and Movement of the Population. Naga Hills reports Mullan C.S. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 [Summary of Subsidiary Table 3. Variation in relation to density since 1881] Naga Hills Percentage of variation: increase (+) decrease (-) 1921-1931 1911-1921 1901-..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Chapter I. Distribution and Movement of the Population. Naga Hills reports Mullan C.S. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 [Summary of Subsidiary Table 5. Persons per house and houses per square mile] Naga Hills Average number of persons per house. ___1931___1921___1911__1901__1891 ____3...
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Chapter II. The Population of Towns and Villages reports Mullan C.S. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 [Summary of Subsiduary Table 1.] Distribution of the population between towns and villages Naga Hills Average population per: town - 2,756, village - 366 Number per mille residing in:..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Chapter II. The Population of Towns and Villages reports Mullan C.S. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 [Summary of Subsidiary Table 2.] Number per mille of the total population and of each main religion who live in towns Naga Hills Number per mille who live in town Total population - ..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Chapter IV. Age. reports Mullan C.S. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 [Summary of Subsiduary table 5.] Proportion of children under 10 and of persons 60 and over to those aged 15-40; also of married females aged 15-40 per 100 females. Naga Hills Proportion of children both sexes per ..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Chapter V. Sex reports Mullan C.S. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 [Summary of Subsidiary table 1.] General proportions of the sexes by natural divisions and districts. Number of females to 1,000 males (actual population) Naga Hills __1931__1921__1911__1901__1891__1881 ___997___993_1,..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Chapter VII. Infirmities insanity reports Mullan C.S. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 85. The number of persons recorded as insane had increased by 1,327 since 1921....In the hills, however, although the proportion of insane per 100,000 of the population is still considerably higher ..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Chapter VII. Infirmities Deaf-mutism reports Mullan C.S. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 In 1921, 1911 and 1901 the Naga Hills was far the worst district for deaf-mutism, yet the figures for 1931 show this infirmity is not much more prevalent there than in several of the plains ..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Chapter VII. Infirmities Blindness reports Mullan C.S. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 The hill districts - as at all previous censuses - have the highest proportion of blind. The Naga Hills and Manipur show an improvement since 1921 but all the other hill districts have deteriorated ..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Chapter VII. Infirmities Leprosy reports Mullan C.S. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 94. It is distressing to note how few ... lepers are receiving proper care and treatment. There are only two small leper asylums in British territory, one at Sylhet and the other at Kohima in the Naga ..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Chapter VII. Infirmities reports Mullan C.S. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 [Summary of Subsidiary Table 1.] Number per 100,000 of the population at each of the last five censuses: Naga Hills ______________________Male_______________________Female ..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Chapter VIII. Occupation reports Mullan C.S. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 [Summary of Subsiduary Table 2a.] Distribution by sub-classes in natural divisions and districts. (a) Earners (principal occupation) and working dependants. Naga Hills Total 1,00 Non-working dependants - 416..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Chapter VIII. Occupation reports Mullan C.S. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 [Summary of Subsiduary table 2b.] Distribution by sub-classes in natural divisions and districts. (b) Earners (subsiduary occupation) Number per mille of total population, of earners having a subsiduary ..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Chapter IX. Literacy reports Mullan C.S. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 [Summary of Subsiduary table 2.] Literacy by age, sex and locality. Naga Hills Number per mille who are literate ____________________________Total___Males___Female ..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Chapter IX. Literacy reports Mullan C.S. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 [Summary of Table 3.] Literacy by religion, sex and locality. Aged 5 and over. Number per mille who are literate ____________Males_____Females_________ Hindu_________330__________48 Muslim________273__________61 ..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Chapter X. Language reports Mullan C.S. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Mr J.P. Mills, I.C.S., Deputy Commissioner of the Naga Hills, tells me that Kachha Naga (though a term which is in common use) is a meaningless expression and that about half the Nagas of Manipur are Lyengmai and ..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Chapter X. Language Tibeto-Chinese family. The Naga group. reports Mullan C.S. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 138. ....The Naga group is one of the most interesting groups o the Assam-Burmese branch. The number of speakers of this group has increased from 227,000 to 265,000 but about ..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Chapter X. Language reports Mullan C.S. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 [Summary of Subsidiary Table 1.] Distribution of total population by language _Language____________Total_number_____Number_per_mille___Where_chiefly ___________________of_speakers____of_population_(1931)____found ..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Chapter X. Language reports Mullan C.S. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 [Summary of Subsiduary table 2.] (a) Number per 10,000 of the total population who speak: Naga Hills Assamese as mother tongue: total - 46 as mother tongue without any subsiduary language - 44 Bengali as mother ..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Chapter X. Language reports Mullan C.S. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 [Summary of Subsiduary table 3.] Comparison of tribe and language tables Tribe_and_language____Strength_of_tribe__Number_speaking_tribal_language _______________________Males_|_Females__________Males_ |_Females ..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Chapter XI. Religion reports Mullan C.S. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 [Summary of Subsidiary table 2.] Distribution by district of the main religions. Naga_Hills__1931__1921__1911__1901__1891 Hindu_______361___390___282___327___261 Muslim_______39____43____21____14____17 Tribal____8,..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Chapter XI. Religion reports Mullan C.S. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 [Summary of Subsidiary table 3.] Christians - number and variations Naga Hills Actual number of Christians in ___1931___1921___1911___1901___1891 _22,908__8,734__3,308____601____231 _Variation_per_cent _1921-..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Chapter 12. Caste, tribe, race and nationality increase and decrease in certain castes and tribes reports Mullan C.S. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 156. ...The Lhotas who numbered over 22,000 in 1891 have gradually decreased at each successive census until today they number just over ..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Appendix A. The effect on the tribes of the Naga Hills district of Contacts with civilization, by J.P. Mills, I.C.S contact with civilization reports Mullan C.S. Mills J.P. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 The conditions obtaining thrhoughout the Naga Hills district being fairly uniform,..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Appendix A. The effect on the tribes of the Naga Hills district of Contacts with civilization, by J.P. Mills, I.C.S exploitation of natural resources; Government's view on jhum land reports Mullan C.S. Mills J.P. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 There has been little of no exploitation ..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Appendix A. The effect on the tribes of the Naga Hills district of Contacts with civilization, by J.P. Mills, I.C.S wage-labour in the plains reports Mullan C.S. Mills J.P. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 There is no systematic recruitment of hillmen for work in the plains. Gangs, ..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Appendix A. The effect on the tribes of the Naga Hills district of Contacts with civilization, by J.P. Mills, I.C.S communications spread disease reports Mullan C.S. Mills J.P. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Improved communications, while they have immensely facilitated internal trade,..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Appendix A. The effect on the tribes of the Naga Hills district of Contacts with civilization, by J.P. Mills, I.C.S rice beer; distilled liquor reports Mullan C.S. Mills J.P. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 The national drink of the hill tribes of Assam is rice beer. Foreigners have ..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Appendix A. The effect on the tribes of the Naga Hills district of Contacts with civilization, by J.P. Mills, I.C.S opium reports Mullan C.S. Mills J.P. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Opium is only consumed in certain areas. The Konyak Nagas are inveterate opium addicts, having ..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Appendix A. The effect on the tribes of the Naga Hills district of Contacts with civilization, by J.P. Mills, I.C.S prostitution reports Mullan C.S. Mills J.P. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 The opening up of the cart road to Manipur has undoubtedly led to an increase in prostitution. ..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Appendix A. The effect on the tribes of the Naga Hills district of Contacts with civilization, by J.P. Mills, I.C.S trade reports Mullan C.S. Mills J.P. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 While the extension of communications has led to the introduction of much foreign rubbish and cheap ..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Khonoma Appendix A. The effect on the tribes of the Naga Hills district of Contacts with civilization, by J.P. Mills, I.C.S Khonoma substituted trade for raiding reports Khonoma Mullan C.S. Mills J.P. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Before the hills were taken over the important village..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Kohima Appendix A. The effect on the tribes of the Naga Hills district of Contacts with civilization, by J.P. Mills, I.C.S prostitution reports Kohima Mullan C.S. Mills J.P. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 I have mentioned above the increase in prostitution due to the cart road. Far ..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Appendix A. The effect on the tribes of the Naga Hills district of Contacts with civilization, by J.P. Mills, I.C.S dangers of education reports Mullan C.S. Mills J.P. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Education of the type which is given has been on the whole an evil rather than a good. ..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Appendix A. The effect on the tribes of the Naga Hills district of Contacts with civilization, by J.P. Mills, I.C.S foreign dress reports Mullan C.S. Mills J.P. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Foreign dress is spreading slowly, but steadily. For this the blame must fall both on certain ..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Appendix A. The effect on the tribes of the Naga Hills district of Contacts with civilization, by J.P. Mills, I.C.S use of corrugated iron reports Mullan C.S. Mills J.P. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Nagas who have taken whole-heartedly to foreign customs often build houses resembling..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Appendix A. The effect on the tribes of the Naga Hills district of Contacts with civilization, by J.P. Mills, I.C.S sacrifice of mithun, and head hunting reports Mullan C.S. Mills J.P. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Only two ancient customs have had to be put down by Government - the ..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Appendix A. The effect on the tribes of the Naga Hills district of Contacts with civilization, by J.P. Mills, I.C.S effect on culture by missionaries reports Mullan C.S. Mills J.P. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Realising that on the preservation of customs developed exactly to fit the..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Appendix A. The effect on the tribes of the Naga Hills district of Contacts with civilization, by J.P. Mills, I.C.S missionary suppression of alchohol reports Mullan C.S. Mills J.P. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 To any one who unable to reject some of the most hallowed passages in ..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Appendix A. The effect on the tribes of the Naga Hills district of Contacts with civilization, by J.P. Mills, I.C.S ceremonial dress, singing and dancing, suppressed by missionaries reports Mullan C.S. Mills J.P. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 It is at the big feasts that singing and ..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Appendix A. The effect on the tribes of the Naga Hills district of Contacts with civilization, by J.P. Mills, I.C.S effect of missions on wood-carving, xylophones and morungs reports Mullan C.S. Mills J.P. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Of the material arts in these hills wood-carving ..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Appendix A. The effect on the tribes of the Naga Hills district of Contacts with civilization, by J.P. Mills, I.C.S effect on the Nagas of missionary suppressions reports Mullan C.S. Mills J.P. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 The suppression of the wearing of all ornaments or tribal ..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Appendix A. The effect on the tribes of the Naga Hills district of Contacts with civilization, by J.P. Mills, I.C.S reflections on the future for the Nagas reports Mullan C.S. Mills J.P. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Times are changing and new influences and tendencies are appearing. ..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Khezha-Kenoma (Kheza-Kenoma) Therugu Mt. Insinyu (Kitagha) Appendix B. (1). The Western Rengma Nagas reports Rengma Western Khezha-Kenoma (Kheza-Kenoma) Therugu Mt. Insinyu (Kitagha) Mullan C.S. Mills J.P. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 1. The tribe is divided into a southern and a ..
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Gwalu of Phesinyu 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Silizuma (Phesinyu) Appendix B. (1). The Western Rengma Nagas megaliths reports Gwalu of Phesinyu Rengma Western Silizuma (Phesinyu) 1929-01-01:1929-12-31 Mullan C.S. Mills J.P. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 6. There is a certain amount of terraced cultivation in ..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Tesophenyu Appendix B. (1). The Western Rengma Nagas stone seats; houses; Feasts of Merit; house horns reports Rengma Western Tesophenyu Mullan C.S. Mills J.P. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 8. Circular, or, more usually, semicircular, stone seats are made by the sides of paths. ..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Appendix B. (1). The Western Rengma Nagas religion; myths about planets, storms and eclipses reports Rengma Western Mullan C.S. Mills J.P. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 11. It is very vaguely believed that the sun is male and the moon female. Both were once equally hot, but God (..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Appendix B. (1). The Western Rengma Nagas burial of the dead reports Rengma Western Mullan C.S. Mills J.P. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 12. The dead are buried in the village. Sometimes a man will ask to be buried outside the village, and if so, his wishes are complied with. The head..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Appendix B. (1). The Western Rengma Nagas souls of the dead reports Rengma Western Mullan C.S. Mills J.P. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 13. The soul of the dead man remains in the village till the Ngada ceremony which marks the beginning of the next agricultural year. Very ..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Appendix B. (1). The Western Rengma Nagas appearance; agriculture; muscical instruments; weapons; heads reports Rengma Western Mullan C.S. Mills J.P. 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 14. The complexion is sallow. The hair is black, and usually straight, but occasionally slightly wavy. It..
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Jadonang 1930-01-01:1930-12-31 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Manipur Relations with Tributary States and Frontier Affairs hill administration reports Jadonang Kacha Kabui 1930-01-01:1930-12-31 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 3. The hill tribes continued to be administered by the President of Durbar and his two ..
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1930-01-01:1930-12-31 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Frontier tribes Relations with Tributary States and Frontier Affairs Margherita, Rangpang, Barduaria, Namsangia and Barmithunia Nagas reports 1930-01-01:1930-12-31 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 15. The sarkari Nagas behaved well as usual. Two cases of rail thefts..
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1930-01-01:1930-12-31 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 Theprezumi Purabami Rurorr Purorr Hukpong Yungya Totok Sowa (Shuwa) Chinglong Mohung Tang Shengha Frontier tribes Relations with Tributary States and Frontier Affairs Naga Hills reports Angami Eastern Sema Phom Konyak Theprezumi Purabami Rurorr Purorr ..
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Gaidiliu Jadonang 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 1932-01-01:1932-12-31 Manipur Relations with Tributary States and Frontier Affairs hill administration reports Gaidiliu Jadonang Kabui Kacha Kuki 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 1932-01-01:1932-12-31 3. The hill tribes continued to be administered by the President of ..
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1931-01-01:1931-12-31 1932-01-01:1932-12-31 Frontier Tribes Relations with Tributary States and Frontier Affairs Margherita, Rangpang, Barduaria, Namsangia and Barmithunia Nagas reports 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 1932-01-01:1932-12-31 15. The sarkari Nagas behaved well as usual. Three cases of theft of ..
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Kangsho khel Tuensang Gaidiliu Jadonang 1931-01-01:1931-12-31 1932-01-01:1932-12-31 Huchirr Iyiche Tsukohomi Cheshorr Phesami Yazathu Naksho Tuensang Rusa Nakphan (Nokphan) Yungya Kamahu Chin Chinglong Totok Rishetsu Honronre (Honroure) Bopungwemi Frontier Tribes Relations with Tributary States and..
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