The Socio – Cultural Changes of Naga Tribes – Its Effect on Women

The paper talks here on the  effect of socio-cultural changes  among the Naga tribes OF North Eastern part of India and its effect  on the women community living in dilemma and fighting  constantly  either for being deprived of community culture  or in adjusting with new culture  of plain community  . The women  in a Naga family though grow up in a  matrinomial  family, they are allowed equally with  man . They as such  allowed to migrate to the city for higher education but they are not allowed to violate the community culture inherent in  them. As per Naga culture they are not expected to marry non tribe community .In case of any such occurrence, they are expected to be killed by the community people. So in Nagaland, the women in case of her involvement with any male from the outer community they   leave the community connection and come down to the plane land  for the fear of losing  life. The shift in settlement from the tribal community to the plane land do  not  help them much to  get rid of their problems. They are expected to pick up the new culture in which they are  culturally and  feature wise mismatch . The negotiation  with the new community culture  puts her to a dilemma. The present paper while talking on the  impact of cultural changes on  Naga women and difficulties witnessed by  them while  negotiating with the outer world.