Jadonang biography of mahatma gandhi

India's North-Eastern provinces' signal role in the country's freedom struggle has not been duly recognised.

The region's various tribes have a hoary history of resistance against the British. The inspiring story of the legendary Naga leader Haipou Jadolang Malangme is one of them.

Jadolang was born in 1905 in Manipur's Rongmei Naga tribe of the Zeliangrong community in the Kambiran village.

He was the first of the North Eastern tribes to wage a lifelong war against the cultural and political invasion of the British. 

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He began his movement by forming a sociopolitical organisation in his community named Heraka.

It fought against unfair practices like animal sacrifice within its tribe and foreign missionaries' attempts to convert them to Christianity with the help of British officials.

As the Naga king became a vassal of t