Cultural Diversity of Nagaland

Nagaland, a North Eastern State of India, is a land of rich cultural diversity. There are five major tribal communities Garo, Kachari, Kuki, Mikir and Naga in Nagaland. Each of these tribes living in Nagaland has ancient customs, rich traditional culture including marriage culture, food habit, dress code, linguistic varieties and life styles. These all are unique in size and dimension, quantity and quality and in heterogeneity. Influential impact of scientific and technological development has been affecting the cultural diversity of the tribal communities of Nagaland. The aftermath result of the impact has appeared to be positive as well as negative. Modernization which is manifested in almost every field of human life has touched the very core of the cultural diversity of the tribal communities of Nagaland. The tribal customs, traditional rituals have been put under a tremendous threat for the causes of urbanization, industrialization and blind imitation of western culture. This paper is an attempt to interpret and anatomize the impact of the scientific and technological development on the cultural diversity in Nagaland. Partha Saha "Cultural Diversity of Nagaland" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-8 | Issue-2 , April 2024, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd64721.pdf Paper Url: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/other/64721/cultural-diversity-of-nagaland/partha-saha