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
• 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.

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.

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
• 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 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

Historical books online

• 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. Published 1905-1928, Volumes 1-10 by B.C. Allen, 1905-06; Volume 11 written anonymously, 1928. Supplementary volumes published c 1915.

There is a download available as a pdf file from Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset catalogued as 1905 Assam District Gazetteers Vols 1 To 10, located under Books, Indian Subcontinent, 1905.

The following are mainly pdf downloads, Digital Library of India: Cachar Vol. 1 1905; Sylhet Vol. 2 1905, Sylhet Supplement 1915; Supplement to Goalpara 1914; Kamrup Vol. 4 1905; Darrang Vol. 5 1905, Darrang Supplement 1915; Nowgong Vol. 6 1903; Sibsagar Vol. 7 1906, Sibsagar Supplement 1915; Lakhimpur Vol. 8 1905, Lakhimpur Supplement 1916; Naga Hills And Manipur Vol. 9 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 The Sadiya and Balipara Frontier Tract ? 1928.

• Imperial Gazetteer of India Provincial Series: Eastern Bengal and Assam 1908. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.
• 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
• ‪Travels and Adventures in the Province of Assam, During a Residence of Fourteen Years‬ by John Butler 1855 Google Books
• "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
• Sport in British Burmah, Assam and the Cassyah and Jyntiah Hills : with notes of sport in the hilly districts of the Northern Division, Madras Presidency ... by Lieut.-Colonel Pollok, Madras Staff Corps. (Fitzwilliam Thomas Pollok) 1879. Volume I, Volume II Archive.org
• The North-East Frontier of India (A topographical, political and military report by Captain St John F Michell, Intelligence Branch, Quarter Master General’s Department, 1973 reprint of 1883 original, may be downloaded as a pdf from PAHAR- Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset, located under Books , Indian Subcontinent, 1883.
• A Glimpse of Assam by Susan R Ward 1884 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
• Report on an Exploration on the North East Frontier 1913 by Captain HT Morshead (Report 1) and Captain F M Bailey Political Department (Report 2) 1914 Archive.org. With Map, Survey of India Offices, Dehra Dun
• Bengal and Assam, Behar and Orissa: their history, people, commerce and industrial resources by Somerset Playne and J W Bond, edited by Arnold Wright, 1917 Archive.org 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 General Staff, India published 1913, is available to download as a pdf file from Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. It is catalogued as Official Account of the Abor Expedition, 1911-12
• History of the Frontier Areas Bordering on Assam: from 1883-1941 by Sir Robert Reid 1942. Archive.org.
• Forgotten Frontier by Geoffrey Tyson, published 1945, may be viewed online on the Digital Library of India website, barcodes 99999990824822 and 99999990848646, or as a pdf download, barcode 99999990796065. 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.