Article 371A of the Indian Constitution. (Answer in 150 words)

- Article 371A of the Indian Constitution. (Answer in 150 words)
Introduction
Article 371A is the strongest constitutional protection given to any community in India: an entire class of parliamentary law does not apply to Nagaland unless the state legislature accepts it.

Body
1. What it protects: no Act of Parliament applies in Nagaland in respect of Naga religious or social practice, Naga customary law and procedure, the administration of civil and criminal justice under customary law, or the ownership and transfer of land and its resources.
2. The condition: such an Act takes effect only if the Legislative Assembly of Nagaland resolves that it shall. The Governor additionally carries a special responsibility for law and order.
3. Background and contestation: inserted by the Thirteenth Amendment in 1962 to give effect to the Sixteen Point Agreement of 1960. Because land and its resources vest in the people rather than the state, petroleum exploration remains unsettled, and the Assembly long deferred one-third reservation for women in urban bodies as contrary to customary law.

Conclusion
It is the clearest instance in Indian law of legal pluralism, and of the tension between customary right and constitutional equality.