• Madhabi Lata Devi
• Dr. Papari Kalita

The Northeastern region of India has been facing multifaceted problems and sufferings of insurgencies and militancies of various types for almost above fifty years. The term ‘Naga Hills’ is very significant which is clearly associated with the so called ‘insurgency’. The first situation of insurgency begins in the Naga Hills in 1950s and gradually it spreads to various other parts of the region. Steadily, the peoples in the Northeastern states of India are living in a condition of untold turmoil, terror caused by insurgency, militancy and movements of various types scattering in different parts of the region. General peoples find no ways and means to get rid of the turbulent situation rather they have been bound to tolerate all the sufferings silently since the last several decades on the ground of various reasons. It is fact that the problems of insurgency can never be solved without understanding the main root causes of such uprising. Today insurgency has become a common social event in the Northeastern region. This region has an accumulation of population comprising different racial and religious groups both in the plains and the hills. The areas and ridgelines occupied by these racial and ethnic groups are connected with one another but these group of people never try to form a social organization integrating them greater strength and unity but they maintain their own socio political and ethnic identities. Today, both the plain and hill areas of the Northeast India are occupied by a number of tribes and sub-tribes having their numerous clans and sub-clans. This paper attempts to discuss about the Naga insurgency which is being continued over half a century old is known as the first and the longest of the secessionist-turned rebellion in south Asia whose main objective is to achieve a sovereign Nagaland along with their lost unique identity of their own with the status of separate nation demanding strongly the right to self-determination from the government of India. Thereby, the main aims and objectives of the Naga tribes are to protect their origin racial, cultural, religious and customary identities with intense hope to live peacefully and hopefully in their to be liberated ‘Homeland’.

Naga, tribes, identity, Insurgency, Homeland.

" Crisis of Identity and Insurgency for Homeland: A Study of Nagaland in the Writings of Easterine Kire and Temsula Ao", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 12, page no.a159-a169, December-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2112020.pdf

" Crisis of Identity and Insurgency for Homeland: A Study of Nagaland in the Writings of Easterine Kire and Temsula Ao", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 12, page no. ppa159-a169, December-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2112020.pdf