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ABOR HILLS

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 67 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ABOR HILLS , a See also:

tract of See also:country on the See also:north-See also:east frontier of See also:India, occupied by an See also:independent tribe called the Abors. It lies north of See also:Lakhimpur See also:district, in the See also:province of eastern See also:Bengal and See also:Assam, and is bounded on the east by the See also:Mishmi Hills and on the See also:west by the Miri Hills, the villages of the tribe extending to the Dibong See also:river. The See also:term Abor is an See also:Assamese word, signifying "barbarous" or "independent," and is applied in a See also:general sense by the Assamese to many frontier tribes; but in its restricted sense it is specially given to the above tract. The Abors, together with the cognate tribes of Miris, Daphlas and Akas, are supposed to be descended from a Tibetan stock. They are a quarrelsome and sulky See also:race, violently divided in their See also:political relations. In' former times they committed frequent raids upon the plains of Assam, and have been the See also:object of more than one retaliatory expedition by the See also:British See also:government. In 1893—94 occurred the first Bor Abor expedition. Some military See also:police sepoys were murdered in British territory, and a force of 600 troops was sent, who traversed the Abor country, and destroyed the villages concerned in the See also:murder and all other villages that opposed the expedition. A second expedition became necessary later on, two small patrols having been treacherously murdered; and a force of Too British troops traversed the border of the Abor country and punished the tribes, while a See also:blockade was continued against them from 1894 to 1900. See See also:Colonel See also:Dalton's See also:Ethnology of Bengal, 1872.

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