THE NORTH-EAST-Different Sets of Rules

as a peripheral area and even now impinging on metropolitan consciousness only as an inconvenient trouble spot, picturesque no doubt but only bearable in small doses, has been delivering some highly original and salutary lessons in the working of the constitution in recent times. In the last six months alone, the developments in the legislatures of three stales, Meghalaya, Nagaland and Mizoram (the last two really the periphery of a peripheral region), have been highly instructive.