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A Sketch of Assam

by John Butler

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A British officer stationed in Assam hopes to make the province better known and to dispel prejudice against it. He describes its silent forests, its towns, its system of slavery, and the hill tribes beyond them, including the Khamtis, Singphos, Abors and Miris, with the colonial attitudes of the time.

An early first-hand account of a remote frontier of British India. Download the free EPUB.

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