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Repatriation and the Naga Case - Eastern Mirror

Sarimaya Awunga, a Tangkhul Naga from Manipur’s Ukhrul village had to sleep alongside human skulls of enemies killed during ‘wars’ fought between rival Naga villages or between Naga and non-Naga villages to serve the purpose of preserving history of his tribe. Considered as a pride of the village for the story each of it holds, the state govt. was approached on several occasions seeking help to preserve the skulls but they were instead requested to hand over to the govt. which they refused saying that it was something they cannot part away with. (Mazumdar. The New Indian Express, 16.06.2018). There are many questions, concerns and perspectives that can be drawn from this piece of (his) tory to generate discussion. However, the key element highlighted here is about preserving history, and such ‘evidential support’ also helps attest history in context because overtime oral memory within the process of transmission becomes contested in the absence of written records or evidentia ....

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