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Art. VIII.—Notes on the Locality and Population of the Tribes dwelling between the Brahmaputra and Ningthi Rivers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

G. H. Damant
Affiliation:
Political Officer, Nága Hills.

Extract

My object in the following paper is to give a brief account of the wild tribes dwelling in the tract of country lying between the Brahmaputra and the Kaiendwen, Namtonai, or Ningthi, as it is indifferently called, the great western branch of the Irrawaddy.

I shall not attempt to give any description of the manners and customs of these tribes, but shall confine myself to indicating the localities which they inhabit, their probable numbers, their principal villages, and the names by which they are known among themselves and to the people of the plains; this last is very important, as many instances have occurred where inquirers working in different parts of the same country have described what is essentially one and the same tribe under different names, and the result has been that people residing at a distance have in more than one instance supposed them to be distinct tribes.

Type
Original Communications
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1880

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