The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

published - extracts on Nagas from 'Assam Administration Report'

caption: Naga Hills district
caption: Relations with Tributary States and Frontier Affairs
caption: Impressed labour
medium: reports
production:
date: 1890
production:
date: 1891
text: 33. The following statement shows the numbers of coolies impressed at headquarters on account of the different departments of Government during the past four years:-
text: _______________________________1887-88__1888-89__1889-90__1890-91
Civil_Department_...___...______1,450______890______686____1,566
Police__...______...___...______1,633____1,388____1,235____2,179
Military_..______...___...________108______734______626______701
Telegraph..______...___...________608______102_______20________-
Commissariat_Department...________619________-______678______379
Public_Works_____...___...________350______236______184____4,541
_______________________________------____------___-----____-----
________________________________4,798____3,350____3,429____9,386
_______________________________------____------___-----____-----
text: The coolies supplied to the Public Works Department were mostly employed on the new cart road, some 15 miles of which were opened up during the year. These coolies all worked for 10 days each, so their number should be multiplied by 10 to get the actual number of coolies who worked for one day each for that Department.
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