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See also:CHIN HILLS , a mountainous See also:district of Upper See also:Burma. It lies on the border between the Lushai districts of Eastern See also:Bengal and See also:Assam and the plains of Burma, and has an See also:area of 8000 sq. m. It is bounded N. by Assam and See also:Manipur, S. by See also:Arakan, E. by Burma, and W. by See also:Tippera and the See also:Chittagong See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill tracts. The Chins, Lushais and Kukis are to the See also:north-See also:east border of See also:India what the See also:Pathan tribes are to the north-See also:west frontier. In 1895 the Chin Hills were declared a See also:part of the See also:province of Burma, and constituted a scheduled district which is now administered by a See also:political officer with headquarters at Falam. The See also:tract forms a parallelogram 250 M. from N. to S. by too to 150 M. wide. The See also:country consists of a much broken and contorted See also:mass of mountains, intersected by deep valleys. The See also:main ranges run generally N. to S., and vary in height from 500o to 9000 ft., among the most important being the Letha or Tang, which is the See also:watershed between the See also:Chindwin and Manipur See also:rivers; the Imbukklang, which divides the Sokte tribe from the Whenchs and sheds the See also:water from its eastern slopes into Upper Burma and that from its western slopes into Arakan; and the Rongklang, which with its prolongations is the main watershed of the See also:southern hills, its eastern slopes draining into the Myittha and thus into the Chindwin, while the western fall drains into the
' See See also:Captain C. R. See also:Day, Descriptive See also:Catalogue of Musical See also:Instruments (See also:London, 1891), p. 233.
2 See See also:Hone's Everyday See also:Book, i. 1248.Boinu See also:river, which winding through the hills discharges itself eventually in the See also:Bay of Bengal. The highest See also:peak yet discovered is the Liklang, between Rawywa and Lungno, some 70 M.
S. of Haka (nearly ro,000 ft.).
It is supposed that the Kukis of Manipur, the Lushais of Bengal and Assam, and the Chins originally lived in See also:Tibet and are of the same stock; their See also:form of See also:government, method of cultivation, See also:manners and customs, beliefs and traditions all point to one origin. The slow speech, the serious manner, the respect for See also:birth and the knowledge of pedigrees, the See also:duty of revenge, the See also:taste for and the treacherous method of warfare, the curse of drink, the virtue of hospitality, the clannish feeling, the See also:vice of avarice, the filthy See also:state of the See also:body, mutual distrust, impatience under See also:control, the want of See also:power of See also:combination and of continued effort, arrogance in victory, speedy discouragement and panic in defeat, are See also:common traits. The Chins, Lushais and Kukis were noted for the secrecy of their plans, the suddenness of their raids, and their extraordinary See also:speed in retreating to their fastnesses. After committing a See also:raid they have been known to See also:march two days and two nights consecutively without cooking a See also:meal or sleeping, so as to See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape from any parties which might follow them. The See also:British, since the occupation of Upper Burma, have been able to penetrate the Chin-Lushai country from both sides at once. The pacification of the Chin Hills is a See also:triumph for British See also:administration. Roads, on which Chin coolies now readily See also:work, have been constructed in all directions. The rivers have been bridged; the See also:people have taken up the cultivation of See also:English vegetables, and the indigenous districts have been largely See also:developed. The Chin Hills had a See also:population (1901 See also:census) of 87,189, while the Chins in Burma totalled 179,292. The See also:Pakokku Chin Hills, which form a See also:separate tract, have an area of 2260 sq. m.; pop. (1901) 13,116. (J. G.
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