How India’s application of Kautilya’s ancient statecraft—Sham, Daam, Danda, and Bhed—has shaped the Naga conflict, revealing both its strategic utility and its unintended consequences.
It was one of the most distinctive democratic and raw exercises in Asia’s postcolonial history. There were no guns or coercion—only ink thumb impressions of clarity to define their own destiny as a sovereign Naga Nation.
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