The Pamphlet

Nagaland is a wonderful place with a glorious history that remains intact even as generations go on with ever changing trends and fads among the Nagas. The Morung(bachelors’ dormitory) system is one that occupies a very important part of the history.  It is a vital institution that taught each villager the important virtues of life and the way of living. This system was common to all the Naga tribes even if other social and political practices or certain details of the practices weren’t very identical. The larger portion of the existence of the Morung culture remains on the other side of the watershed when the Britishers had still not introduced the religion of Christianity among the Nagas. This, however, doesn’t imply that all the good qualities the Morung as an institution offered to the young Naga lads were abandoned too. It only means that in order to give more importance to church(or God- which is what a Christian is required to do), the institutional hierarchy in the vill...