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...days of empire, the savage Nagas, many of whom are good pious Baptists, have long fiercely resented the fact that Nehru's government split their tribes into two camps and clamped one under the rule of New Delhi and the other under the state of Assam...
...accelerating volume of discontent." Less than two hours after the Prime Minister's Delhi speech, 2,000 students, angered by a 50% increase in their tuition fees, ran riot in the pink, princely city of Jaipur, breaking shop windows and setting fires as they went. In subtropical Assam thousands boycotted the Independence Day celebrations in their wrath over a government announcement that a new refinery to process Assamese oil might be built outside Assam...
From the copper mines of Sikkim to the oilfields of Assam, Russian traders and technicians traipsed through India last week, offering cut-rate rubles, big-brotherly advice and back-scratching barter deals. Czech engineers mapped roads in the mountainous north. East German technicians scouted sites for India's first raw film factory. In central Bhilai, Russian specialists supervised construction of a steel mill for which Russian moneymen had advanced some $100 million at 2½%, about half the interest rate proposed by Western lenders...
Among the tribes that jealously rule the steep hills flanking the Assam Valley on India's strategic northeast frontier, none are so colorfully and fiercely independent as the Nagas. Nearly half a century of British law and the influence of U.S. Baptist missionaries have moderated their fondness for lopping off neighbors' heads, but the Nagas have never swerved from their desire to be King of the Mountains. After the British pulled out of India, the Indian government offered the Nagas tribal autonomy under New Delhi. Replied a Naga spokesman: "White man was never king over us. Now black...
Afraid that the Naga revolt may spread to other tribes and give Red China an opening to step in on the disputed Indo-Tibet border, Prime Minister Nehru last week called on the Indian army to join Assam's armed police in an offensive operation against the rebels. Next day Naga terrorists kidnaped seven pro-government villagers in broad daylight, beheaded four of them. In the Assam hills warriors scornfully tore from their colorful costumes the dyed goat hair that they had substituted for human hair. Into its place, once more, went the real thing...