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*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=8MMRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR5 ''Topography of Assam''] by John M'Cosh 1837. Google Books   
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=8MMRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR5 ''Topography of Assam''] by John M'Cosh 1837. Google Books   
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=uysYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA104 "Assam"] ''Asiatic Journal, Volume 27-New Series September-December 1838'', page 104
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=uysYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA104 "Assam"] ''Asiatic Journal, Volume 27-New Series September-December 1838'', page 104
*[https://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/21479 ''Report on the Khasi and Jaintia Hills, 1853''] by A J M M Mills 1901  Assam Secretariat Printing Office. GIPE Digitised Books.
:[https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.30166/page/n3/mode/2up Reprint edition of ''Report on the Khasi and Jaintia Hills, 1853'']  introduced and annotated by J B Bhattacharjee 1985. Archive.org, Ministry of Culture/Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi Collection.
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.22730/page/n5/mode/2up ''Report on the Administration Of the Cossyah and Jynteah Hill Territory''] by W J Allen 1858 Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=tzhCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR3  ''‪Travels and Adventures in the Province of Assam, During a Residence of Fourteen Years''‬] by John Butler 1855 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=tzhCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR3  ''‪Travels and Adventures in the Province of Assam, During a Residence of Fourteen Years''‬] by John Butler 1855 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=h9cRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA50  "On an Overland Route Between Calcutta and China"] by J McCosh MD, late Bengal Medical Staff ''Colburn’s United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal 1861 Part 2'' page 50
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=h9cRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA50  "On an Overland Route Between Calcutta and China"] by J McCosh MD, late Bengal Medical Staff ''Colburn’s United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal 1861 Part 2'' page 50
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* ''History of Services of Gazetted and Other Officers Serving under the Government of Assam 1921'' [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.82581  Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
* ''History of Services of Gazetted and Other Officers Serving under the Government of Assam 1921'' [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.82581  Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2253/mode/2up ''Sport and Service in Assam, and Elsewhere''] by Lt.-Col Alban Wilson, late 1st Battalion, 8th Gurkha Rifles.  1924. Archive.org, mirror from Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.  Some of the contents first appeared in the ''Fishing Gazette'' and Indian papers such as the ''Pioneer''. Covers the period from c 1890.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2253/mode/2up ''Sport and Service in Assam, and Elsewhere''] by Lt.-Col Alban Wilson, late 1st Battalion, 8th Gurkha Rifles.  1924. Archive.org, mirror from Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.  Some of the contents first appeared in the ''Fishing Gazette'' and Indian papers such as the ''Pioneer''. Covers the period from c 1890.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2309/mode/2up "The Assam-Burma Frontier"] by J P Mills, ICS ''The Geographical Journal'' Vol. LXVII No.4 April 1926. Archive.org, mirror from  PAHAR: Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.52854 ''The Romance of the Indian Frontiers''] by Lt-Gen Sir George MacMunn, Colonel-Commandant Royal Artillery 1931 Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.52854 ''The Romance of the Indian Frontiers''] by Lt-Gen Sir George MacMunn, Colonel-Commandant Royal Artillery 1931 Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/historyofthefron035444mbp ''History of the Frontier Areas Bordering on Assam: from 1883-1941''] by Sir Robert Reid 1942. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/historyofthefron035444mbp ''History of the Frontier Areas Bordering on Assam: from 1883-1941''] by Sir Robert Reid 1942. Archive.org.
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:[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1983-imperilled-frontiers-indias-north-eastern-borderlands-by-rustomji-s-pdf/  ''Imperilled Frontiers–India’s North-Eastern Borderlands''] by Nari Rustomji 1983. Link to a pdf download, PAHAR - Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset (MCADD). If the download button does not display, locate under Books/Indian Subcontinent/1983.
:[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1983-imperilled-frontiers-indias-north-eastern-borderlands-by-rustomji-s-pdf/  ''Imperilled Frontiers–India’s North-Eastern Borderlands''] by Nari Rustomji 1983. Link to a pdf download, PAHAR - Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset (MCADD). If the download button does not display, locate under Books/Indian Subcontinent/1983.
* Industry and Industrial Arts series of Monographs. Pdf downloads, Digital Repository of GIPE Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics [Pune].  
* Industry and Industrial Arts series of Monographs. Pdf downloads, Digital Repository of GIPE Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics [Pune].  
**[http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/21540 ''Monograph on the Cotton Fabrics of Assam''] by H F Samman 1897. Also available [https://archive.org/details/CottonFabricsOfAssam Archive.org].
**[https://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/21540 ''Monograph on the Cotton Fabrics of Assam''] by H F Samman 1897. Also available [https://archive.org/details/CottonFabricsOfAssam Archive.org].
**[http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/37706 ''Monograph on Ivory Carving in Assam''] by James Donald 1900
**[https://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/37706 ''Monograph on Ivory Carving in Assam''] by James Donald 1900
**[http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/18561 ''Monograph on the Iron and Steel Work  [of Eastern Bengal and Assam<nowiki>]</nowiki>'']. 1907.
**[https://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/18561 ''Monograph on the Iron and Steel Work  [of Eastern Bengal and Assam<nowiki>]</nowiki>'']. 1907.
*[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_xjG0AAAAIAAJ/page/n5 ''Pflanzerleben in Indien kulturgeschichtliche bilder aus Assám''] by Oscar Flex 1873 Archive.org. German language. [http://www.reiseliteratur-weltweit.de/index.php/artikel/1367-fi-1864-flex-teeplantage Extract from the book] reiseliteratur-weltweit.de. German language. ([https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_xjG0AAAAIAAJ/page/n71 page 63]), [https://translate.google.com.au/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reiseliteratur-weltweit.de%2Findex.php%2Fartikel%2F1367-fi-1864-flex-teeplantage Google Translate English version of the extract] reiseliteratur-weltweit.de. Article with details of the book [https://www.telegraphindia.com/states/north-east/an-european-s-account-of-assam/cid/443929 "An European's account of Assam"] by  Arup Kumar Dutta  5.03.12 ''The Telegraph (India)''.
*[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_xjG0AAAAIAAJ/page/n5 ''Pflanzerleben in Indien kulturgeschichtliche bilder aus Assám''] by Oscar Flex 1873 Archive.org. German language. [http://www.reiseliteratur-weltweit.de/index.php/artikel/1367-fi-1864-flex-teeplantage Extract from the book] reiseliteratur-weltweit.de. German language. ([https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_xjG0AAAAIAAJ/page/n71 page 63]), [https://translate.google.com.au/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reiseliteratur-weltweit.de%2Findex.php%2Fartikel%2F1367-fi-1864-flex-teeplantage Google Translate English version of the extract] reiseliteratur-weltweit.de. Article with details of the book [https://www.telegraphindia.com/states/north-east/an-european-s-account-of-assam/cid/443929 "An European's account of Assam"] by  Arup Kumar Dutta  5.03.12 ''The Telegraph (India)''.



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The Assam region was gradually annexed by the East India Company following the 1st Burma War and became part of the Bengal Presidency. In 1906 a new province of Eastern Bengal and Assam was formed but in 1912 Assam became a separate province under a Chief Commissioner. Assam today is a state in north eastern India noted for its Tea Plantations and lush landscape.

Bamboo Suspension Bridge, Assam

Related articles

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 online, refer below.
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.

Passport application records at the Assam State Archives

The Assam State Archives has a download available from its website, listing passport applications for the period 1920-32 and 1936-41. Dates of birth of the applicants are also included. Refer below.

Recommended reading

  • May, Andrew - Welsh Missionaries and British Imperialism: The empire of clouds in north-east India published 2012.
A review of this book by David Macadam is contained in FIBIS Journal Number 30 (Autumn 2013) page 48

External links

  • Assam Wikipedia
  • Assam State Archives Dispur, Guwahati Assam. Retrieved 15 October 2014.
    • To access the passports application list download, select Collections/Holdings of Assam State Archives/ Assam Secretariat Records (1874-1957).
  • Four Archives in Mizoram, India by Kyle Jackson, Department of History, University of Warwick, May 25, 2015. dissertationreviews.org. Mizoram is one of the seven Northeastern states of India, bordered by Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) to its east and south, Bangladesh to its west, and the states of Manipur, Assam, and Tripura to its north.
  • "River Cruising in Assam" The Daily Telegraph, 19 August 2009 [retrieved 7 February, 2010], mentions Kaziranga National Park, declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO for its unique natural environment.
  • Kaziranga National Park Wikipedia
  • "Sex and Salvation: Modelling Gender on an Indian Mission Station" by Andrew Brown-May. The Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Foreign Missionary Society (WFMS) in the Khasi Hills of north-east India. From Evangelists of Empire?: Missionaries in Colonial History University of Melbourne 2008, now archived pages. The book Welsh missionaries and British imperialism: The empire of clouds in north-east India by Andrew May was published in 2012 by Manchester University Press (Studies in Imperialism), refer Recommended reading, above.
  • Historical Account of British Legacy in the Naga Hills (1881-1947) by Joseph Longkumer, Phd Thesis 2011, Department of History, Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth University, Pune
  • The Nagas: Hill Peoples of Northeast India University of Cambridge and Yale Digital Himalaya. Includes transcriptions of historical reports, diaries etc. Retrieved 3 September 2014

Military

Also called Kuki Punitive Operations.
"Breaking the spirit of the Kukis: launching the 'largest series of military operations' in the northeastern frontier of India" by Thongkholal Haokip. academia.edu. Chapter 3 from The Anglo-Kuki War 1917-1919: A Frontier Uprising against Imperialism during the First World War, edited by Jangkhomang Guite and Thongkholal Haokip 2019.

Historical books online

There is a download available as a pdf file from Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset as 1905 Assam District Gazetteers Vols 1 To 10 Archive.org mirror version.
The following are mainly originally from Digital Library of India, with mirror editions on Archive.org: Cachar Vol. 1, Archive.org 1905; Sylhet Vol. 2 1905, Archive.org, later reprint edition, Sylhet Supplement Archive.org 1915; Goalpara Vol.3 Archive.org 1905, Supplement to Goalpara, Archive.org 1914; Kamrup Vol. 4, Archive.org 1905; Darrang Vol. 5, Archive.org 1905, Darrang Supplement, Archive.org 1915; Nowgong Vol. 6, Archive.org 1905, Nowgong Supplement Archive.org 1915; Sibsagar Vol. 7, Archive.org 1906, Sibsagar Supplement, Archive.org 1915; Lakhimpur Vol. 8, Archive.org 1905, Lakhimpur Supplement, Archive.org 1916; Naga Hills And Manipur Vol. 9, Archive.org 1905; The Khasi and Jaintia Hills, the Garo Hills and the Lushai Hills Vol.10 1906 Archive.org., Volume10 Supplement 1915. British Library EAP file (Tiff images, may require a plug-in); Vol.11, Archive.org The Sadiya and Balipara Frontier Tract ? 1928.
Reprint edition of Report on the Khasi and Jaintia Hills, 1853 introduced and annotated by J B Bhattacharjee 1985. Archive.org, Ministry of Culture/Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi Collection.
Report on the Administration Of the Cossyah and Jynteah Hill Territory by W J Allen 1858 Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India.
1883 Confidential Report (Topographical Political and Military) on the North-East Frontier of India by Michell. Pdf from Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset, (if download does not display, located in Books/Indian Subcontinent). Archive.org mirror version. Note, it is not known if these digital files differ, or are in fact the identical publication.
Years of Change in Bengal and Assam by Sir Robert Reid 1966. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Sir Robert was 36 years in the ICS 1907-1942, including the years 1937-42 as Governor of Assam. He then worked in wartime Calcutta to mid 1943.
Imperilled Frontiers–India’s North-Eastern Borderlands by Nari Rustomji 1983. Link to a pdf download, PAHAR - Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset (MCADD). If the download button does not display, locate under Books/Indian Subcontinent/1983.

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