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KACHIN HILLS , a mountainous See also:tract in Upper See also:Burma, inhabited by the Kachin or Chingpaw, who are known on the See also:Assam frontier as Singphos. Owing to the See also:great number of tribes, sub-tribes and clans of the Kachins, the See also:part of the Kachin hills which has been taken under See also:administration in the See also:Myitkyina and See also:Bhamo districts was divided into 40 Kachin See also:- HILL
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- 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)
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- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
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hill tracts (recently reduced to five). Beyond these tracts there are many Kachins in See also:Katha, Mong Mit and the See also:northern Shan States. The See also:country within the Kachin hill tracts is roughly estimated at 19,177 sq. m., and consists of a See also:series of ranges, for the most part See also:running See also:north and See also:south, and intersected by valleys, all leading towards the See also:Irrawaddy, which drains the country. There were 64,405 Kachins enumerated at the See also:census of 1901. Philological investigations show that it is probable that the progenitors
i From the enlistment of See also:Kabyles speaking the See also:Zouave See also:dialect the Zouave regiments of the See also:French See also:army came to be so called.of the Kachins or Chingpaw were the Indo-See also:Chinese See also:race who, before the, beginnings of'See also:history, but after the Mon-See also:Annam See also:wave had covered Indo-See also:China, forsook their See also:home in western China to pour over the region where See also:Tibet, Assam, Burma and China converge, and that the Chingpaw are the See also:residue See also:left See also:round the headquarters of the Irrawaddy and the See also:Chindwin after those branches, destined to become the Tibetans, the Nagas, the See also:Bur-mans and the Kuki Chins, had gone westwards and southwards. In the See also:middle of the 19th, See also:century the See also:southern limit of the Kachins was 200 M. farther north than it is now. Since then the race has been drifting steadily southward and eastward, a vast aggregate of small See also:independent clans See also:united by no See also:common See also:government, but all obeying a common impulse to move outwards from their See also:original seats along the See also:line of least resistance. Now the Kachins are on both sides of the border of Upper Burma, and are a force to be reckoned with by frontier administrators. According to the Kachin Hill Tribes Regulation of 1895, administrative responsibility is accepted by the See also:British government on the left See also:bank of the Irrawaddy for the country south of the Nmaikha, and on the right bank for the country south of a line See also:drawn from the confluence of the Malikha and Nmaikha through the northern limit of the Laban See also:district and including the See also:jade mines. The tribes north of this line were told that if they abstained from raiding to the south of it they would not be interfered with. South of that line See also:peace was to be enforced and a small See also:tribute exacted, with a minimum of interference in-their private affairs. On the British See also:side of the border the See also:chief See also:objects have been the disarmament of the tribes and the construction of frontier and See also:internal roads. A See also:light tribute is exacted.
The Kachins have been the See also:object of many See also:police operations and two See also:regular expeditions: (I) Expedition of 1892-93. Bhamo was occupied by the British on the 28th of See also:December 1885, and almost immediately trouble began. See also:Constant punitive See also:measures were carried on by the military police; but in December 1892 a police See also:column proceeding to establish a See also:post at Sima was heavily attacked, and simultaneously the See also:town of Myitkyina was raided by Kachins. A force of 1200 troops was sent to put down the rising. The enemy received their final See also:blow at Palap, but not before three See also:officers were killed, three wounded, and 102 sepoys and followers killed and wounded. (2) Expedition of 1895-96. The continued misconduct of the See also:Sana Kachins from beyond the administrative border rendered punitive measures necessary. They had remained unpunished since the attack on Myitkyina in December 1892. Two columns were sent up, one of 25o rifles from Myitkyina, the other of zoo rifles fromMogaung, marching in December 1895. The resistance was insignificant, and the operations were completely successful. A strong force of military police is stationed at Myitkyina, with several outposts in the Kachin hills, and the country is never wholly See also:free from crimes of violence committed by the Kachins.
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