- Lived:
- 26 January 1915, Nungkao (Longkao) village, Tamenglong, Manipur → the Zeliangrong hills of Manipur, Assam and Nagaland; fourteen years in Assam's jails; died in Longkao, 17 February 1993
- Field:
- anti-colonial revolt and religious revival — heir to Haipou Jadonang's movement, leader of what became the Heraka faith, lifelong advocate of a Zeliangrong homeland within India
- The Big Idea:
- A sixteen-year-old girl inherited a hanged prophet's rebellion, told three districts of hill people to pay no tax and obey no colonial order, and spent the rest of a long life fighting — first the British Empire, then, more painfully, currents within her own Naga world.
- In their words:
- "We are a free people" — the core of her preaching, as her followers recalled it.
- If you remember one thing:
- The British Raj sentenced a teenaged girl to life imprisonment because she was winning; and sixty years after her release, Indians, Naga nationalists and Naga Christians are still arguing over who she belongs to — which is the surest sign that she mattered.