The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

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

caption: Problems of revenue collection and road upkeep
medium: tours
person: Lal Bahadur Sarki
location: Zubza Kohima
date: 6.4.1926
production:
person: Hutton/ J.H.
date: 21.3.1926-6.4.1926
acquirer:
person: Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford
refnum: Hutton Ms. Box 2
text: 6/4/1926 Next morning another coolie - a Nepali this time - one Lal Bahadur Sarki who had not yet been in the district three months, he said, also came to complain about the collection of revenue from him, I am not sure what the practice is about the collection of revenue from faltus [].
text: To Kohima and on the way the P.W.D. overseer pointed out many encroachments of jhum on the P.W.D. road side lands. I told him to measure out this 75 ft. and stick in boundary stones in the jhums.