Rising Tensions Between Nagas And Kukis – Free PDF Download

Context

• In Manipur few groups of the Kuki militants have sought the intervention of PM Modi to subdue the rising tensions between the Kukis and the Nagas

Recent tensions

• The Manipur government ordered that the stone memorials be taken down.
• The KIC which is the apex body of Kuki people in various northeastern states, asked all Kuki villages to install memorial stones with the inscription.
• But Naga bodies objected to the Kukis installing these stone memorials on the Naga’s ancestral land.

Background

• Before the British came in, the Kukis had been one of the dominant tribes
• Therefore, the Anglo-Kuki War was essentially a war for the independence and liberation of the Kukis from the imperialists.
• The war had unified the efforts of Kukis living in northeast India, Myanmar and Bangladesh.

Claims of Naga

• The Nagas claimed that the Kukis have been trying to distort history as there has been no “Anglo-Kuki War” but a “Kuki Rebellion” in 1917.
• The United Naga Council (UNC), the apex body of the Nagas of Manipur, asserted that the Kuki rebellion against the British was for labour recruitment drive under the Labour Corps Plan.

Reason for Kuki-Naga clashes in the past

• I. Reorganization of Manipur
• II. Identity

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