The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

typescript - J.H. Hutton's tour diary in the Naga Hills

caption: Reduction in Rifle Battalion strength at Kohima
medium: tours
location: Chakhabama (Sakhabama) Kezoma Kidima Mima Thenizumi (Theniazuma) Sylhet
date: 17.5.1921
production:
person: Hutton/ J.H.
date: 17.5.1921-21.5.1921
acquirer:
person: Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford
refnum: Hutton Ms. Box 2
text: 17th
text: To Sakhabama. Kezoma complained of the heavy work on the road. It might be possible to give part of it to Kidima, Mima and Theniazuma.
text: At 4 am I was woken up by a sepoy with a note from the Commandant saying that he had been warned to send another platoon to Sylhet and that this would reduce the strength of the Battalion at Kohima to less than 250 rifles.