The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

miscellaneous papers, notebooks and letters on Nagas by Ursula Graham Bower, 1937-1947

caption: sepoys
medium: notes
ethnicgroup: Zemi
location: Hangrum
production:
person: Graham Bower/ Ursula
date: 1937-1946
acquirer:
person: private collection
text: Note. The Hangrum brush with the sepoys. Information from the former bungalow chowkidar, who was arrested by the sepoys and sitting a prisoner in the bungalow site during the attack.
text: 6 men were killed on the slope outside the present bungalow site. 4 men were wounded, but none died. Only 3 were reported. The fourth man had a slight flesh wound in the buttock, which was treated with native medicines and healed. 1 man died in one of the camp huts at Asalu, when returning from punishment labour in Haflong.
text: The daroga got Rs 100 from Shongkai, on the threat of burning their dhan, and tried to get Rs 100 as a price of mercy from the Haungrum chowkidar when he was under arrest, but he hadn't got it. D subsequently reduced his terms to Rs 50 but chowkidar hadn't got that either, though he says he wished he had. D also got away with 2 necklaces from Nenglo, and is said to have got a sum of money about 70/- from Laisong.