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*''Forgotten Frontier'' by Geoffrey Tyson,  published 1945.  [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/528129  pdf download, Digital Library of India], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.528129  Archive.org version].  It is also available as a [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1945-forgotten-frontier-by-tyson-s-pdf/  pdf download] from Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. 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.  
*''Forgotten Frontier'' by Geoffrey Tyson,  published 1945.  [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/528129  pdf download, Digital Library of India], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.528129  Archive.org version].  It is also available as a [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1945-forgotten-frontier-by-tyson-s-pdf/  pdf download] from Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. 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.  
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1959-indias-north-east-frontier-in-the-19th-century-by-elwin-s-pdf/  ''India’s North-East Frontier In the 19th Century''] by Verrier Elwin 1959. Pdf download from Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital  Dataset.
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1959-indias-north-east-frontier-in-the-19th-century-by-elwin-s-pdf/  ''India’s North-East Frontier In the 19th Century''] by Verrier Elwin 1959. Pdf download from Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital  Dataset.
* 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
**[http://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.


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Revision as of 05:36, 5 June 2017

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 at the British Library (Open Access), and on a restricted basis online (North America etc) on the Hathi Trust Digital Library.
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.

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

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
The following are mainly pdf downloads, Digital Library of India, which may have mirror editions on Archive.org: Cachar Vol. 1, Archive.org 1905; Sylhet Vol. 2 1905, Sylhet Supplement 1915; 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 1903; 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.

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