Limalenden Longkumer
In the light of the fact that we are encountering a massive demographic invasion, and that we are witnessing the early episodes of an epoch of racial adulteration, I strongly feel that we need to build a resurgent conviction to re-conquer and restore our liberty. But this resurgent conviction can only be the final product of an equal feeling in the millions of the Nagas.
In this epoch of racial adulteration and contamination, we must always remember that, just as many indigenous and aboriginal races across the world had to give way to others and leave no trace behind them, so also, we Nagas too will have to give way to the invaders if we lose our racial purity and identity. What makes a people or, to be more correct, a race, is not language or geographical boundaries but blood. Therefore, we must uphold and safeguard the sanctity of our national bloodstream.
The adulteration and contamination of the blood and racial deterioration conditioned thereby are the primary causes that account for the decline of ancient civilizations. Having said that, if the Naga race is to survive the test of time, and if the Naga culture is to continue to exist, we need to build a sovereign State of our own because the State is the only weapon in the service of mankind’s great and eternal struggle for existence, the expression of a common will to exist – as one people, one race, one nation.
We are proud of our rich culture but this culture depends on our people for its existence. If we are, as a race, washed away to the tides of time and are replaced by a mongrel race as a result of racial adulteration, our culture will also be gone for ever – and what a sad tale to tell, that would be.
For the preservation of our culture and our racial stock, I repeat, we need to build a sovereign Naga State. However, we should remember the fundamental principle that the State is not an end in itself but a means to an end. Its end and its purpose is to preserve and promote a community of human beings who are physically as well as spiritually kindred. The Indian State will sooner or later collapse because it does not serve to this end.
The State and its people are analogous to the bottle and its contents. The State is only the bottle and the people are what it contains. The bottle can have a meaning only if it preserves and safeguards the contents. The Indian State is not our bottle. Therefore, we need our own bottle. A sovereign Naga State should be established and the Naga racial stock preserved and promoted – if we Nagas should survive till kingdom come.
Until such time as the sovereign Naga State is established, which I believe we can achieve by building the resurgent conviction to liberate ourselves, we should simultaneously take every care that our national bloodstream is not contaminated. The contamination and adulteration of our blood with that of the foreigners (the non-Nagas) in the course of many years will give form to a new mongrel race in which our original elements will become so wholly mixed through this crossing that traces of our original Naga elements will be no longer recognizable. We don’t want to be a chaff race, do we?
