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*[[Tea Plantation]]
*[[1897 Assam earthquake]]
==Cemeteries==
*[[BACSA]] publication ''Assam and North-East India: Christian Cemeteries and Memorials'' by Eileen Hewson, 2005
:A comprehensive list of MIs with biographical notes, district by district, including records from churches, 1783-2003. 184pp, 5 illustrations ISBN 0 907799 82 5
:This book is thought to include at least some entries from ''List of Inscriptions on Tombs Or Monuments in Assam'' published in 1902 at Shillong (120 pages) available at the [[British Library]] (Open Access)
:For details of Eileen Hewson's booki ncluding purchase, see [http://indian-cemeteries.org/bacsa/html/bacsa_books.html BACSA Books] - select Cemetery Record Books.
:[[BACSA]] have put indexes to the majority of their cemetery books online and these indexes are free to browse. If an indexed name is of interest then application can be made to BACSA for details of the relevant burial inscription - charges apply for this service.
==External links==
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/bengalassambehar00playuoft#page/404/mode/2up ''Bengal and Assam, Behar and Orissa: their history, people, commerce and industrial resources''] from by Somerset Playne and J W Bond 1917 on the Archive.org website has a chapter on "The Province of Assam".
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/frontieroverseas04indi#page/n9/mode/2up ''Frontier and Overseas Expeditions from India:Volume 4 North and North-Eastern Frontier tribes''] by Intelligence Branch Army Headquarters India 1907 Archive.org
**''Frontier and Overseas Expeditions from India: Volume 7 Official Account of the Abor Expedition, 1911-1912'' by Intelligence Branch Army Headquarters India published c 1913, is available at the [[British Library]] and through Amazon.co.uk from the [http://astore.amazon.co.uk/faminbriindso-21/detail/1845743113 FIBIS Shop] as a reprint. *[https://archive.org/stream/easternfrontiero035321mbp#page/n3/mode/2up ''The Eastern Frontier Of British India 1784-1826''] by Anil Chandra Banerjee Second Edition , revised and enlarged 1946 (first published 1943) Archive.org*Extracts Some sample pages from [http://www.koi-hai.com/Default.aspx?id=477224#forgottenfrontierbygeoffreytyson ''Forgotten Frontier''] by Geoffrey Tyson, first published 1945, may be downloaded as a pdf from the Koi-Hai website. This book may be viewed online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website.The book is about the escape of refugees from Burma in 1942 and the help provided by the tea planters of Assam in assisting the refugees from north Burma ino India.
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