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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A region on the India-Myanmar (Burma) border. Its people were subdued by the British from 1865 to 1880.
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Satellite view of the pine forests in the northern Naga Hills, India.
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Then there is the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, a 50-year-old law initially introduced as a short-term measure to allow army deployment against separatist movements in the Naga Hills, initially in Assam and Manipur, and later applied throughout the troubled northeast.
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Moving south are the mountain ranges of Patkoi, Lushai Hills, Naga Hills, Manipur, and the Chin Hills.
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Champion and Seth identified a number of broadleaf forest types across the midelevations (1,500-3,000 meters) of the Himalayas: the east Himalayan moist mixed deciduous forests, east Himalayan wet temperate forests, Naga Hills wet temperate forests, Alder forests, east Himalayan oak-rhododendron forests, and Himalayan temperate parkland.
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Calcutta, and 1200 from the Naga Hills at the extreme east of Upper
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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Loongurze is infested with a villainous midge, of the same genus as that of the Naga Hills, but few are to be found at Bharowl.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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Abor Hills, stretching along to S.W. the more distant Naga Hills.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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-- "The Bengal Sunderbunds, Tipperah, the swamps at the base of the Garo, Khasia, and Naga Hills" (_Pollock_).
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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The Supreme Court of India dismissed a petition filed by the state government claiming ownership of more than 25 acres of land at Naga Hills because it wasn't filed on time, the newspaper reported.
NYT > Home Page By THE NEW YORK TIMES 2012
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Missionaries were also encouraged to open government-aided schools in the Naga Hills.
Countercurrents.org 2009
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