In Abor Jungles
Being an Account of the Abor Expedition, the Mishmi Mission and the Miri Mission

An account, published 1912, of the punitive expedition sent by the Delhi government to a remote part of north-eastern India.

Angus Hamilton (Author)

9781108046053, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 26 April 2012

420 pages, 62 b/w illus. 1 map
21.6 x 14 x 2.4 cm, 0.53 kg

This 1912 book by Angus Hamilton (1874–1913), a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, is an account of the British military expeditions to quell uprisings among remote tribes in north-eastern India in 1911–12. Famous for his earlier books on Afghanistan, the problems of the Middle East, and Somaliland, Hamilton gives a full account of the various phases of the 'Abor expedition' which resulted in a crushing defeat of the local tribes. The book begins with a survey of the geography of the area, and a description of the Abor people, explaining the turbulent background to the murder in March 1911 of two British officials. A highly detailed and illustrated account then follows of the murders, and of the punitive response of the government in Delhi, which sent an expedition both to bring the area back under control and also to carry out geographical surveys of a relatively unknown area.

1. The land of the Abors
2. Our relations with the tribes
3. Frontier regulations
4. The plan of campaign
5. The lands
6. Preparations at Calcutta, Shillong and Dibrugarh
7. Selection of Kobo
8. The merry nags
9. The start of the operations
10. Start of Major-General Bower and main column
11. The start of the political missions
12. The Mishmi Mision
13. Pasighat abandoned
14. A gruesome discovery
15. Crossing the Dihang
16. Advance to Komsing
17. The travels of Kinthup
18. The value of the operations
Appendix.

Subject Areas: Asian history [HBJF]