
Mr. Dependent
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#Article: Colonial Policy: British Buffers and Mercenary Settlers The #Kuki infiltration is not anecdotal but a documented historical process. In the mid-19th century, the #British systematically relocated Kuki populations into #Naga territories to serve as buffers against #indigenous resistance. Political Agent #WilliamMcCulloch, operating in the 1840s, oversaw this transplantation, granting them #land and #arms in exchange for their loyalty as irregular colonial enforcers. These “sepoy villages” were not natural settlements but militarized installations intended to suppress Naga autonomy and facilitate imperial control. McCulloch explicitly described the #Kukis as lacking fixed attachment to any #territory, rendering them pliant tools of empire. To read more: ukhrultimes.com/from-guests-to…







