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See also:DAPHLA (or DAFLA) HILLS , a See also:tract of hilly See also:country on the border of Eastern See also:Bengal and See also:Assam, occupied by an See also:independent tribe called Daphla. It lies to the See also:north of the See also:Tezpur and North See also:Lakhimpur subdivisions, and is bounded on the See also:west by the Aka Hills and on the See also:east by the Abor range. See also:Colonel See also:Dalton in
The See also:Ethnology of Bengal considers the Daphlas to be closely allied to the 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 Miris, and they are akin to and intermarry with the Abors. They have a reputation for cowardice, and as politically they are disunited, they are at the See also:mercy of the Akas, their less numerous but more warlike neighbours on the west. Their clothing is scanty, and its most distinguishing feature is a See also:cane cap with a fringe of bearskin or feathers, which gives them a very curious See also:appearance. The men See also:wear their See also:hair in a See also:plait, which is coiled into a See also:ball on the forehead, to which they fasten their caps with a See also:long skewer. In 1872 a party of independent Daphlas suddenly attacked a See also:colony of their own tribesmen, who had settled at Amtola in See also:British territory, and carried away See also:forty-four captives to the hills. This led to the Daphla expedition of 1874, when a force of See also:lobo troops released the prisoners and reduced the tribe to submission. According to the See also:census of 1901 the Daphlas in British territory numbered 954, the tribal country not being enumerated.
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