Sep 15, 2020
Did Nehru Ban Sadhus in Nagaland?
INDIA’S FIRST PRIME MINISTER Jawaharlal Nehru had banned Sadhus (Hindu ascetics) from entering Nagaland, a north-east state which was then a part of NEFA or North Eastern Frontier Agency, in a pact with Verrier Elwin, a British Christian missionary who had become Mahatma Gandhi’s follower but later left the nationalist movement. An anthropologist and ‘ethnologist’ (expert on ethnic traits) he…
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