The social system of the Nagas is one of the best system of human social life. The
community life of the Nagas has a unique feature. They work in group, eat in group, sleep
in group and wooing in group. There is no individual cultivation, harvesting, house
building. The community has concern on individual problems. Every work should be completed
within the stipulated time. A family could not complete a work in time due to sickness,
there the whole community will come to help it. The philosophies of the Nagas were very
close to communist principle "He who does not work, neither shall he eat" is a
Naga principle too. There is no place for idle man in the Naga community.
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The Naga village government is all alike with the modern democratic form of government.
There is no division of high and low, no castesim but all are equal before the eyes of
law. All members in the society enjoy equal rights and privileges. The Nagas who died in
thousands mile away was brought and buried where he was born. The Nagas are a well
organizes and disciplined community. They do not lock their houses and their paddy barn
are kept in the outskirts of the village. Theft, murder, lies, cheating was unknown in the
Naga village. There was no any formal established institutions or schools to impart
education to the youngsters, but learnt to work together, live together, help together,
sing together as a community, all these they learnt from their dormitory life, the early
Naga school. Morung was a common practice of all Naga tribes. The morung of the boys and
the girls were usually under the look out of a particular family guardianship. When both
the boys and the girls reach puberty they enter the morung (dormitory life). The boys pays
visits to the girls dormitory in the night to crack jokes, narrate story, sing songs,
exchange news and views and they retire to their own bedrooms late at night. Thus the
morung were the main centers of the Naga social life. Morungs were the early schools where
the youths were moulded and impart them education, develop personalities, build their
character and learn various social activities, tactics of games and sports, the skill of
hunting's, agriculture, buildings of houses crafts and looms, know each others life and
thus begins love at the dormitory and choose partner of the right kind of would be wife or
husband.
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Man folk are valued more, due respect is given to man. The
animal butchered for the feast of merit, marriage or any other feast, the meat are given
only to man share. The status of man in the society is very high. To be born as male in
the society is a great privilege but on the other hand he has a great responsibilities.
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