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*[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
*[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.   
**''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.   
*[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 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.   
*[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 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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Revision as of 07:02, 26 May 2013

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 East 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

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