Unlike mainland India, Assam was not under the British for two centuries but only 121 years. The Nagas were under the British for only five or six decades. So strong was resistance against foreign subjugation here. Even when the British finally took over Assam and the North East, resistances persisted and flourished. Tribals, Adivasis, Dalits, minorities, among them many women, were in the forefront of endless protests and struggles against the B
