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Excerpt from The Angami Nagas: With Some Notes on Neighbouring Tribes The late Mr. S. E. Peal, in his "Fading Histories," lamented the delay in the study of the Naga tribes, and the consequent loss of much material out of which their past histories might have been recovered. He points out the remarkable rapidity with which they are changing and indeed have already changed. He urges "unearthing of some local food history from these people ere it has faded for ever," and the careful study of the Naga tribes before they are "reformed and hopelessly sophisticated." But if the eastern Nagas of whom Mr. Peal was thinking have changed much in recent years the Western Nagas have changed far more. It...
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