Kohima Tourism, Nagaland India
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Kohima Fast Facts
- State: Nagaland
- District: Kohima
- Famous for/as: Scenic, Wildlife,Hill Station,City
- Population: 78,584 (2001)
- Religions: Hindu, Muslims
- Area: 20 km2 (8 sq mi)
- Altitude: 1444 m
- Language: Nagamese, Hindi, English, Angami
- Best Season: Oct - May
- Weather: Summer 20 to 35°C, Winter 5 to 30°C
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- Local Transport: Taxi, Bus
- Pincode: 797001
- STDCode: 0370
Kohima Info
Deputy Resident Commissioner, Nagaland House, New Delhi, Tel: 011-23012296 / 23793673
Deputy Resident Commissioner, Nagaland House, Kolkata, Tel : 033-22823247 / 22821967
Assistant Resident Commissioner In Guwahati and Shillong, Tel : 0361-2332158 / 2333859 [Guwahati], 0252083 / 2520670 [Shillong]
Kohima, India Overview
Kohima, the capital town of Nagaland in the north eastern part of India is a picturesque town, situated amidst lush green wealth of the nature. Kohima in Nagaland, a typical Naga town is a pretty hill station, with panoramic views of the rugged Naga hills, displaying the exotic tribal culture of the northeast. The home of the brave and daring, yet simple and innocent, Naga tribes, Kohima Nagaland is unspoilt and replete with some attractive sites to see and do. Sheltered in the eastern frontiers of the Himalayan mountain range, Kohima in Nagaland is noted for its unhurried pace of life, calm and serene environs and fresh, unpolluted air, which make a welcome change for a exhausted city sniffers.
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Kohima, India History
The British incursions into the Naga territory beginning in the 1840s met with stiff resistance from the independence loving Nagas who had never been conquered by any empire before. The stiffness of the resistance can be gauged by the fact that it took nearly four decades for the British to conquer a territory that is less than 10,000 square kilometres (the eastern region was left free). Kohima was the first seat of modern administration as the Headquarters of Naga Hills District (then under Assam) with the appointment of G.H. Damant as Political Officer in 1879. When Nagaland became a full fledged state on 1 December 1963, Kohima was christened as the state capital.
In 1944 during World War II the Battle of Kohima along with the simultaneous Battle of Imphal was the turning point in the Burma Campaign. For the first time in South-East Asia the Japanese lost the initiative to the Allies which they then retained until the end of the war. This hand-to-hand battle and slaughter prevented the Japanese from gaining a high base from which they might next roll across the extensive flatlands of India like a juggernaut.
Garrison Hill battlefield, the key to the British defences at Kohima
Kohima has a large cemetery for the Allied war dead maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. The cemetery lies on the slopes of Garrison Hill, in what was once the Deputy Commissioner's tennis court which was the scene of intense fighting, the Battle of the Tennis Court. The epitaph carved on the memorial of the 2nd British Division in the cemetery has become world-famous as the Kohima poem. The verse is attributed to John Maxwell Edmonds (1875–1958), and is thought to have been inspired by the epitaph written by Simonides to honour the Greek who fell at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC.