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LUSHAI HILLS

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 130 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LUSHAI HILLS , a mountainous See also:

district of Eastern See also:Bengal and See also:Assam, See also:south of See also:Cachar, on the border between Assam and See also:Burma. See also:Area, 7227 sq. m.; pop. (1901) 82,434. The hills are for the most See also:part covered with dense See also:bamboo See also:jungle and See also:rank undergrowth; but in the eastern portion, owing probably to a smaller rainfall, open grass-covered slopes are found, with groves of See also:oak and See also:pine interspersed with rhododendrons. These hills are inhabited by the Lushais and cognate tribes, but the See also:population is extremely scanty. From the earliest known times the See also:original inhabitants were Kukis, and the Lushais were not heard of until 1840, when they invaded the district from the See also:north. Their first attack upon See also:British territory took See also:place in See also:November 1849, and after that date they proved one of the most troublesome tribes on the north-See also:east frontier of See also:India; but operations in 1890 resulted in the See also:complete pacification of the See also:northern Lushai villages, and in 1892 the eastern Lushais were reduced to See also:order. The management of the South Lushai See also:hill See also:country was transferred from Bengal to Assam in 1898. To obtain more efficient See also:control over the country the district has been divided into eighteen circles, each in See also:charge of an interpreter, through whom all orders are transmitted to the chiefs. The Welsh Presbyterian See also:Mission began See also:work at Aijal in 1897, and the See also:people have shown un, expected readiness to accept See also:education. According to the See also:census of 1901 the See also:total number of Lushais in Assam was 63,452. See See also:Colonel T.

H. Lewin, See also:

Wild Races of N.E. India (1870) ; Lushai Hills Gazetteer (See also:Calcutta. 1906).

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