The Hill Tracts Of Arakan

Author : W. Gwynne Hughes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781332136650
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book The Hill Tracts of Arakan (Classic Reprint) written by W. Gwynne Hughes and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Hill Tracts of Arakan The condition of wild tribes and the country inhabited by them has of necessity from time to time attracted the attention, not only of Government, but also of the general public. Although it may be open to question whether our rule and civilization in India have been duly appreciated by dwellers on the plains and inhabitants of cities, there cannot exist a doubt that England's policy generally towards the hill tribes living on her north-east frontier from Assam to Arakan has been beneficent and successful. In tracts where butchery, slavery, misrule, and disorder reigned supreme, raiding, with its attendant traffic in captives, has been stamped out, and order and good government have been inaugurated. The resources of the several hill tracts have been developed, and hill men have been taught that trade and agricultural industry are as attractive and as profitable as the barter of captives and slaves. Thus, following in the wake of the Cossyah, Jynteah, Naga, and other aboriginal tribes along our eastern border, the Arakan hill races are gradually being brought to order; internal raids and crime are repressed, and external raids reduced in magnitude. For so satisfactory a state of affairs it would be unsafe to predict permanence, for on our north and north-east frontier are many powerful and marauding tribes from time immemorial independent of the British power, who have ceased to harass our frontier only within the last few years, since the close of the Lushai campaign. The habitat of these tribes, noted on the map as a blank, undefined and unsurveyed, abuts on Upper Burma, and is populated by the powerful tribe of Shandoos or Pools. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.