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MIKIRS , a 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 tribe of See also:India, occupying two or three detached tracts in See also:Nowgong and See also:Sibsagar districts of Eastern See also:Bengal and See also:Assam, known as the Mikir hills. In 1901 their See also:total number was returned as 87,o56. Mikir is the name given to them by the See also:Assamese; they See also:call themselves Arleeng, which means " See also:man " in See also:general. They have See also:long settled down to See also:agriculture, and are distinguished from the tribes around them by the See also:absence of savagery. Their See also:language, which has been studied by missionaries, seems to connect them with .the Kuki-See also:Chin stock on the Burmese frontier.
See See also:Sir C. See also:Lyall, The Mikirs (1908).
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