History of Upper Assam, Upper Burmah and North-Eastern Frontier

In this 1914 work, Shakespear describes the history of the remote north-eastern frontier of India and its tribes.

Leslie Shakespear (Author)

9781108046077, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 26 April 2012

310 pages, 66 b/w illus. 2 colour illus. 3 maps
21.6 x 14 x 1.8 cm, 0.4 kg

Soldier and military historian L. W. Shakespear (1860–1933), published this book on the north-eastern frontier of India and its tribes in 1914. He had served in the Assam Military Police Force, and this book, which is illustrated with photographs taken by the author, is 'an attempt to produce something useful and readable at least for those who care about that little known but very interesting corner of India'. The work begins with a review of the archaeology and history of the area, and is particularly concerned with the ethnography of the various border tribes, such as the Kachari, Ahom and Naga. The small beginnings, in 1823, of the tea industry, which still forms an important part of the region's economy, are described, and the work ends with a consideration of the strategic importance of the area, in the context of a widely expected 'awakening' and modernisation of China.

Preface
1. Assam
2. History of the Kach?ri race
3. The Ahom race
4. Mir Jumla's great invasion
5. Massacre of Moamaria at Garhgaon
6. English aid refused by Sir J. Shore
7. Religion
8. The border tribes
9. Akas
10. Abors continued
11. Mishmis
12. Burmah borderland
13. Kachins
14. The Naga tribes
15. Regrettable incidents
16. The North-eastern frontier generally and its Military Police forces
Appendix
Index.

Subject Areas: Asian history [HBJF]