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: 1893
production:
date: 1894
text: The following statement shows the number of coolies impresses at headquarters on account of the different departments of Government during the past five years:
text: ______________________________1889-90__1890-91__1891-92__1892-93__1893-94
Civil_Department__________________686____1,566____1,070______764____1,016
Police__________________________1,235____2,179____2,054____3,713____2,150
Military__________________________626______701____4,191____9,201____5,535
Telegraph_&_Postal_Departments_____20_____________2,149______224_______45
Commissariat______________________678______379____8,651
Public_Works_Department___________184____4,541____2,392___20,574___77,697
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Total___________________________3,429____9,386___20,507___34,476___86,443
text: The great increase in impresses coolies during the year was due to the fact that some four or five hundred coolies were supplied daily during the cold weather to work on the Nichuguard-Manipur cart road. The figures in the above statement do not represent the actual number of coolies employed in the district. Coolies impressed at Wokha, Henima, and Mokokchang are not included in these figures. In addition to the above figures, come 8,000 coolies were supplied to bring rice into Kohima.
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