Publisher: Ura Academy 2003
Author: Easterine Kire

 From 1832 to 1880, a little warrior village numbering about 500 houses fiercely fought and defied the invading troops of the Colonial power of Britain on their ancestral lands in the Naga Hills. A major offensive in 1879, which later historians recorded as "The Battle of Khonoma" was launched against this little village. It ended in a four month siege and a treaty was finally signed between Her Majesty's Government and the elders of Khonoma on March 27th 1880. 

For the first time, the rich cultural life that fostered the spirit of the people of this village is recaptured in a novel. Warriors jostle with enemy warriors and with the spirits in a pre-christian world of taboos, rituals and festivals where women worked as hard as men and men strove to live up to obligations of manhood- protecting their village and their womenfolk, making the name of the village fearful and ensuring the survival of the old religion in the face of the ever widening influence of colonization