Nagas have every right to be independent. We did not want to live under the domination of the British and they are now leaving us. I want you to fell that India is yours. I feel that Naga Hills are just as much as they are yours, but if you say, "It is not mine", then the matter stops there. I believe in the brotherhood of man, but I do not believe in force or forced unions. If you do not wish to join the Union of India nobody will force you to so that.
-Mahatma Gandhi, in Bhangi Colony, New Delhi, 19 July, 1947
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