Naga Hills

Naga Hills, a district of British India, the south-eastern extremity of Assam, with an approximate area of 6400 sq. m. and a pop. of 130,300. It consists of a mountainous region, covered with jungle and forest, the haunt of various wild animals, and is inhabited by the aboriginal Nagas and other semi-savage people, whose incessant raids into the more orderly British provinces occasioned much trouble from 1832 down to 1881. In that year their country was made an administrative district, and garrisoned with a native regiment.