The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

published - extracts on Nagas from 'Assam Administration Report'

caption: Nagas on the Lakhimpur frontier
caption: Nagas on the Lakhimpur and Sibsagar Frontier
caption: Section 2. Relations with Tributary States and Frontier Affairs
caption: subsidies; elephants
medium: reports
location: Hakanjuri T.G. Towrak T.G.
production:
date: 1900
production:
date: 1901
text: the subsidy of Rs. 450, due to Namsang Raja for the year 1900-1901 on account of the Hukanjuri garden and Rs. 50 due to the Bormithunia Naga chief for the years 1899-1900 and 1900-1901 on account of the Towrak garden, were paid during the year. The subsidy due to the Namsang Raja for the year 1899-1900 and that to the Bormithunia Naga chief for the year 1898-99 were withheld for the offence reported in paragraph 58 of the report for the year 1898-99. One Hafizuddin Khan, of Dibrugarh, who was permitted to catch elephants in the Namsang Hills for two years from 1st April 1900, caught four elephants, and paid the usual royalty. The Borduaria Naga Raja who has been permitted to catch elephants in his hills for three years from 1st April 1901, did not at the close of the year start operations.