Dissecting The Naga Life Through The Texture Of The Novel A Respectable Woman By Easterine Kire

Abstract

This  present  article    aims  historical  aspects  of  Naga  life through  the  novel  A Respectable Woman.It  is  a  coming  of  age  story  rendered   through  three  sections. Kire tries  to  trace  the  history of the past  and  the  present  Nagaland. The  story  is set  on  the  backdrop  of  the Japanese invasion  of  Kohima  during   second  world  war  and  the  post  world  war  traumatic  years. While probing into  the history of  Nagaland,  one  can  find  that  they were  an    isolated  group  for  centuries and  they began  to  contact  the  outside  world  only  in  the  second  half  of  the  19th century, due to positive  influence  of  the  British  administrators  and  American  Missionaries.