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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Ngwalwa Village
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| settlement_type = village
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| pushpin_map = India Nagaland#India
| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Nagaland, India
| coordinates = {{coord|25.663770|N|93.786668|E|display=inline,title}}
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| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = [[India]]
| subdivision_type1 = [[States and territories of India|State]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Nagaland]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of India|District]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Peren district|Peren]]
| subdivision_type3 = [[Administrative divisions of India#Sub-districts|Circle]]
| subdivision_name3 = [[Pedi (Ngwalwa)]]
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| population_total = 1020
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'''Ngwalwa Village''' is a village in the [[Peren district]] of [[Nagaland]], [[India]]. It is located in the [[Pedi (Ngwalwa)]] [[Administrative divisions of India#Sub-districts|Circle]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://dolr.nic.in/dolr/mpr/revenuevillagedirectorypdf/Nagaland.pdf |title=Nagaland revenue village directory |access-date=22 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304054733/http://dolr.nic.in/dolr/mpr/revenuevillagedirectorypdf/Nagaland.pdf |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

== Early history ==

The early history of Ngwalwa is traced back to Gaili Namdi days.

Ngwalwa Village was founded by Peirieng (Haume).

After the formation of Village, Haikube (Heuna) of Gaili, who was on his way to settle at Heralwa; was invited by his uncles and elders of Ngwalwa Village in order to complete the rituals.

Haikube then settled down at Ngwalwa Village and he was given a land, and it is called as Haikululwa till today.

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== Location ==
Ngwalwa shares its land boundary with the following villages [[Ndunglwa]], [[Mhaidungki|Dungki]], [[Benreu]], [[Gaili]] of [[Peren district|Peren]] district and [[Ruzaphema]]. The present Ngwalwa Village is a gateway for many Zeliangrong villages. It is 18 km away from [[Jalukie]] Town, 36 km from the commercial town [[Dimapur]] and around 70 km from the state capital [[Kohima]].

== Demographics ==

Apart from the original inhabitants the people permanently residing in Ngwalwa are influx mostly from [[Zeme people|Zeme]] villages like [[Benreu]], [[Poilwa]] and [[Ze, India|Ze]], plus a small number of [[Tenyimi]] tribes.

According to the [[2011 census of India]], Ngwalwa Village has 1020 people in 289 households (excluding [[Ngwalwa HQ|Ngwalwa Town]] and [[Heningkunglwa]] Village, in Ngwalwa). The effective literacy rate (i.e. the literacy rate of population excluding children aged 6 and below) is 80.41%.<ref name="census_2011"/>

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Demographics (2011 Census)<ref name="census_2011">{{cite news |url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/dchb/1311_PART_B_DCHB_PEREN.pdf |title=District Census Handbook - Peren |work=[[2011 Census of India]] |publisher=Directorate of Census Operations, Nagaland |access-date=2015-07-22 }}</ref>
! !! Total !! Male !! Female
|-
| Population || 1020 || 516 || 504
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| Children aged below 6 years || 152 || 78 || 74
|-
| [[Scheduled caste]] || 0 || 0 || 0
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| [[Scheduled tribe]] || 953 || 480 || 473
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| Literates || 698 || 367 || 331
|-
| Workers (all) || 846 || 428 || 418
|-
| Main workers (total) || 130 || 102 || 28
|-
| Main workers: Cultivators || 72 || 62 || 10
|-
| Main workers: Agricultural labourers || 0 || 0 || 0
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| Main workers: Household industry workers || 2 || 2 || 0
|-
| Main workers: Other || 56 || 38 || 18
|-
| Marginal workers (total) || 716 || 326 || 390
|-
| Marginal workers: Cultivators || 422 || 181 || 241
|-
| Marginal workers: Agricultural labourers || 6 || 2 || 4
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| Marginal workers: Household industry workers || 2 || 1 || 1
|-
| Marginal workers: Others || 286 || 142 || 144
|-
| Non-workers || 174 || 88 || 86
|}

== Culture and religion ==
The [[British Empire|British]] and the Indian Officers addressed the people of Ngwalwa as [[Golomi]] in their written records. The people of Ngwalwa are [[Hill tribes of Northeast India|hill people]] depending basically on cultivation and livestock-rearing. According to myth, they are brave, courageous and powerful warriors. It is believed that they caught the tiger alive, stopped the jungle wildfires and floods with their mighty strength.

The people of Ngwalwa recently adopted [[Christianity]]. They are mostly of [[Baptist]] denomination and a minute of [[Christian revival]], [[Pentecostal]] denominations.

== References ==
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{{Peren district}}

[[Category:Villages in Pedi (Ngwalwa) Circle]]

Ngwalwa Village - Revision history

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