The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

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

caption: Opium smuggling at Borjan
medium: tours
location: Borjan Darjiling
date: 30.7.1929
production:
person: Hutton/ J.H.
date: 3.7.1929-1.8.1929
acquirer:
person: Pitt Rivers Museum Archive, Oxford
refnum: Hutton Ms. Box 2
text: 30 July.
text: To Borjan. Opium is being smuggled here. One man was caught receiving it by post from Darjiling district, and the Sub-divisional Officer convicted him, but there are certainly other sources of supply not yet detected. Information reached us that a Pathan brought in 3 seers, but it could not be verified.
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