Assam

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

Related articles

• Assam Districts
• Church of Scotland Burials in Assam
• Tea Plantation
• 1897 Assam earthquake
• Assam Regiment
• Assam Rifles
• Assam Valley Light Horse

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 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

• Assam Wikipedia
• "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
• Growing Up in Assam: A Personal Story by Amrit Baruah 2011. The author was born c. late 1920s and his father was a magistrate, then Additional Judge scribd.com

Historical books online

Historical books on-line

• A Statistical Account of Assam Volume I by W W Hunter 1879 (archive.org)
  
• A Statistical Account of Assam Volume II by W W Hunter 1879 (archive.org)
  
• Assam District Gazetteers, Volume 10: The Khasi and Jaintia Hills, the Garo Hills and the Lushai Hills by B C Allen CS 1906 Archive.org. There are additional volumes in this series available on the Digital Library of India website.
• Memoir of the late David Scott, Esq. Agent to the Governor General, on the North- East Frontier of Bengal, and Commissioner of Revenue and Circuit in Assam 1832 Google Books
• Report on the Eastern Frontier of British India by Robert Boileau Pemberton 1835 Google Books
• Topography of Assam by John M'Cosh 1837. Google Books
• "Assam" Asiatic Journal, Volume 27-New Series September-December 1838, page 104
• "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
• Notes on the mode of capture of elephants in Assam by Archibald Campbell, Superintendent of Darjeeling 1869 Archive.org
• Wild sports of Burma and Assam By Fitz William Thomas Pollok and W. S. Thom 1900 Archive.org
• The Romantic East: Burma, Assam, & Kashmir by Walter Del Mar 1906 "Containing sixty-four full page illustrations from photographs" Archive.org
• Eastern Bengal and Assam Police Manual 1911 Archive.org

• Volume 3 Reserve, Ordnance, Clothing, Guards and Escorts
• Volume 4 Court Office
• Volume 5 Inspectors and Police Stations

• A history of Assam by Sir Edward Albert Gait 1906 Archive.org
• History of Upper Assam, Upper Burmah and North-Eastern Frontier by Leslie Waterfield Shakespear 1914 Archive.org
• 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".
• 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 FIBIS Shop as a reprint.
• Some sample pages from 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 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 into India.