ABSTRACT
The Nagaland to which Phizo returned was vastly different from the place he had last seen in 1936.
When he had left, the northeast hill areas had been relatively untouched by the Indian independence movement. Such was not the case on his return, for wither India went after the war affected the entire region. Nagaland had been in the front line in the battle which defeated the Japanese. Later it became th~ springboard from which the British counterattack took off. In the process the peaceful, rural society had been torn apart. It would never be 'the same again.
