Discussion
Which of the following North-East states of India was first to face the brow-brunt of ethnic insurgency ?
Answer: B
The first was Nagaland.
The Naga National Council under A. Z. Phizo declared Naga independence on 14 August 1947, and by the mid-1950s the Naga Hills were in armed revolt, the first ethnic insurgency in the North-East. The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act of 1958 was passed to deal with it, and Nagaland became a state in 1963.
Insurgency in Mizoram followed in 1966, in Manipur from the late 1960s and in Tripura in the late 1970s, while the ULFA movement in Assam began in 1979. All came after the Naga rising.
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