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decision to study Nzemi, on advice of J.P. Mills |
| note: |
footnotes indicated by boxes within square brackets |
| text: |
In February, 1940, Mr. J.P. Mills, C.S.I., C.I.E., then Governor's Secretary and Director of Ethnography, Assam, suggested the Nzemi to me as a useful field of study, since no detailed record then existed of their kinship system, political organization, rituals, land-tenure or economy. The section of the tribe which was most accessible and which, curiously enough, was least affected by the Missions, was that know as the Maruong, in the North Cachar Subdivision of Cachar District. This is the section described in the present paper as the Central Nzemi. |
