ABSTRACT
The construction of the history and territoriality of the people in their neighbourhood has involved, without the consent of the Naga people, a diminution of their own history and territory, indeed of their selves. The fact, however, is that the Nagalim envisaged by National Socialist Council of Nagalim (NSCN), four districts of Manipur constituting over three-fourths of the state’s territory would be integrated into Nagalim; and the residual Manipur would be entirely surrounded by Nagalim, to be squeezed further when, eventually, Nagalim would be a sovereign country. Predictably, both the Khaplang faction of the NSCN and the Adino faction of the Phizoist Naga National Council have accused Muivah and other leaders of having already reached a tacit agreement on such a trade-off diluting if not abandoning the more fundamental issue of Naga national sovereignty, though this is not exactly the case.
