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Masang Haichangnang Gaidiliu Dikheo Chapter twenty-one. Masang reincarnation of Gaidiliu books Masang Haichangnang Gaidiliu Dikheo Graham Bower Ursula I looked across the hearth at Haichangnang. I saw his face, his look; and I understood. To Masang I was, and always had been, re-incarnated Gaidiliu..
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Laisong Chapter twenty-two. The Coming of War Laisong books Laisong Graham Bower Ursula (161) Where lay the taste of Laisong, its special flavour; what brought us back, aching for it, after ten days away ? There was the square bungalow, with its sagging thatch and its latticed railings; the ..
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Laisong Chapter twenty-two. The Coming of War quality of life in Laisong books Laisong Graham Bower Ursula Life itself was hard and uncertain. One never let a quarrel linger. A bout of fever, or a falling tree - who could be sure of surviving to make it up ? One lived entirely in the present, with ..
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Namkia Haichangnang Chapter twenty-two. The Coming of War visit to Calcutta books Namkia Haichangnang 1941-12-01:1941-12-31 Graham Bower Ursula I went to Calcutta again in December, 1941, on my annual holiday, and once more took Namkia. This time he insisted on bringing Haichangnang for company, ..
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Perry Mr. Chapter twenty-two. The Coming of War Mr Perry takes over at Mahur books Perry Mr. Graham Bower Ursula We came back to Mahur to find the former S.D.O. gone and the new one, Mr Perry, encamped at the bungalow. I went to meet him with some trepidation. To a woman alone, as I knew to my cost..
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Chapter twenty-two. The Coming of War news of Pearl Harbour, fall of Singapore and the invasion of Burma books Graham Bower Ursula (165) With the first post to reach Laisong after our return came the news of Pearl Harbour. All through the winter of 19412, however, the war still seemed to be a long ..
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Chapter twenty-two. The Coming of War recruiting Zemi volunteers books Graham Bower Ursula The war was on us. There was one thing I didn't intend to do, despite the general confusion, and that was to leave Assam - whether there was a general evacuation or not. Returning to Laisong, I recruited, not..
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Namkia war work: running a canteen at Lumding junction Chapter twenty-two. The Coming of War books Namkia 1942-03-01:1942-03-31 Graham Bower Ursula Our luck was out. They had stopped sending women workers up the roads, because the conditions there were so appalling. In the last days of March, 1942,..
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war work: running a canteen at Lumding junction Chapter twenty-two. The Coming of War Zemi fear for safety books Graham Bower Ursula When it became generally known that we were going, there occurred an unexpected incident. A deputation of headman suddenly appeared to protest against the Governor's ..
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Namkia war work: running a canteen at Lumding junction Chapter twenty-two. The Coming of War Namkia's fears books Namkia Graham Bower Ursula Namkia was strangely silent on the way down. On our last night in the hills, in the camp at Asalu, he drifted to and fro, hanging about - wishing, it seemed, ..
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Rankin Mrs. Lumding Chapter twenty-three. Refugee Canteen Lumding Junction books Rankin Mrs. Lumding Graham Bower Ursula (169) Lumding was unique, in that it was pure junction. It had no other 'raison d'etre' whatever. It had originally been built, in a clearing hacked in the steamy green Nambhor ..
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Chapter twenty-three. Refugee Canteen refugee trains books Graham Bower Ursula Early each morning the refugee-trains rolled in loaded to the roof. In theory, they passed through during the night, reaching Chaparmukh or Pandu in time for the morning meal. In fact, they spent the night in sidings ..
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Laisong Chapter twenty-four. Famine return to Laisong books Laisong 1942-05-01:1942-05-31 Graham Bower Ursula (174) Not till the middle of May 1942 did we see Laisong again. We came crawling back over the Tolpui pass, exhausted, a shadow of the party which marched off. We were worn out, worked to a..
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Asalu Chapter twenty-four. Famine monsoon stops invasion; famine in Asalu books Asalu Graham Bower Ursula Then the rains broke. Invasion was halted till autumn. A wall of falling water, a grey screen, shut us and our eyrie off from the rest of the world. Three weeks later, on the first clear day ..
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Asalu Chapter twenty-four. Famine famine concealed from authorities through fear of debt books Asalu Graham Bower Ursula It was all as tragic as misunderstanding as one could find. A generation before, in another scarcity, a Haflong clerk who was gifted more with dramatic than common sense had come..
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Perry Chapter twenty-four. Famine headmen ask for a private loan; letter to Perry books Perry Graham Bower Ursula The headmen arrived to see me that same afternoon. They were a tragic sight, lean ghosts of my old friends. Their hair was lank, they were pitiably thin; the dry skin was tight over ..
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Miroteung Perry Chapter twenty-four. Famine refusal to take rice even when starving books Miroteung Perry Graham Bower Ursula The crust of Zemi secrecy so rarely cracked that when it did, what emerged was startling. One moment all was peace and silence in the Barail, and the next a shocked Perry, ..
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Chapter twenty-four. Famine attack of malaria books Graham Bower Ursula No woman could have been more gentle, no nurse more devoted than Namkia was to me then. I was very ill for a time and quite helpless. For a day and a night he never left my room; every time I roused, he was sitting by me; at ..
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Nraitsak Chapter twenty-four. Famine dysentery outbreak in Nraitsak books Nraitsak Graham Bower Ursula In July came the dysentery outbreak in Nraitsak. This tragedy, like the famine, sprang directly from Zemi conservatism and isolation. Like the famine, it was preventable, but unlike it, it was ..
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Chapter twenty-four. Famine monsoon gales books Graham Bower Ursula As if to match the confusion in human affairs, the Rains were the wildest and windiest we had known. The short bushes on the south cliff shook day after day to a lashing south-west gale; rain rattled like bullets on the outer walls..
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Chapter twenty-four. Famine mounting tension as Japanese advance books Graham Bower Ursula Lastly, there was the atmosphere of those three months. The Japs were just beyond the border, there was tension everywhere; rumour and counter-rumour rippled through. The Zemi were afraid. Talk magnified our ..
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Wright Col. Rawdon Dinekamba 'V' Force - 'watch and ward' Chapter twenty-five. The Colonel books Wright Col. Rawdon Dinekamba 1942-08-01:1942-08-31 Graham Bower Ursula (180) In early August I heard from Haflong that a Colonel Rawdon Wright was coming to see me. One could, from the bungalow, see a ..
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'V' Force - 'watch and ward' Chapter twenty-five. The Colonel necessity for Zemi involvement books Graham Bower Ursula We brought out a map and spread it on the table. There (182) were the tracks; the road from Kohima, and the Naga paths from Maovom and Impuiloa, meeting at Haijaichak in the ..
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Wright Col. Hangrum 'V' Force - 'watch and ward' Chapter twenty-five. The Colonel visit to Hangrum with Col. Wright books Wright Col. Hangrum Graham Bower Ursula (183) I didn't realize until we came to keep pace with him on the bride-road how desperately slow his leg made him. We were making barely..
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Critchley Perry Paodekumba Chapter twenty-six. Recruiting recruiting for 'V' Force books Critchley Perry Paodekumba 1942-10-01:1942-10-31 Graham Bower Ursula (186) Nothing much happened till October. Then, quite suddenly, another "V" Force Colonel dropped in. A young and extremely tall one it was ..
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Namkia Chapter twenty-six. Recruiting recruiting in Hangrum fails books Namkia Graham Bower Ursula It was about a week before Namkia and I went up there, as I had a bad leg and wasn't fit to march. In the meantime Paodekumba, lately my scullion, called in at the camp; and, hearing of the scheme, ..
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Perry Asalu Impoi Chapter twenty-six. Recruiting recruits from Asalu and Impoi books Perry Asalu Impoi Graham Bower Ursula Asalu and Impoi, on the other hand, were eager to do so. There were so many candidates we were able to pick and choose. The pay offered wasn't high, only ten to fifteen rupees ..
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Hangrum Chapter twenty-six. Recruiting return to Hangrum; Perry tries to persuade; attempt to foist cripples on 'V' force books Hangrum Graham Bower Ursula By the time I went back to Perry to report, the smaller Zemi villages were all co-operating and so was each Kuki settlement we had approached. ..
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Tseva of Hangrum Chapter twenty-six. Recruiting oath taken books Tseva of Hangrum Graham Bower Ursula They came back again next day with a fresh selection. One or two of the old ones were, it is true, still there, but the more noticeably damaged had been replaced. There was, too, a new tone ..
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Chapter twenty-seven. The Scheme Begins 'watch and ward' in operation books 1942-12-01:1942-12-31 Graham Bower Ursula (193) By early December Watch and Ward was in operation, though, pending invasion, it had not been extended forward to its scheduled frontier along the Barak from Henima village ..
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Chapter twenty-seven. The Scheme Begins red cloths books Graham Bower Ursula The difficulty now was to put into the Zemi, so long trodden on by everybody, a little backbone. After the first week or so they came back complaining bitterly that without red cloths, the outward and visible sign of ..
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Scott Col. Chapter twenty-seven. The Scheme Begins pay and rations books Scott Col. Graham Bower Ursula Our connection with H.Q. was not always close in the very early days. Drafts and the Haflong Treasury's opening day failed so signally to coincide in the first weeks that at the beginning of ..
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Binny Col. Namkia Rintening Chapter twenty-seven. The Scheme Begins visit from commander of 'V' Force, Assam, bringing guns books Binny Col. Namkia Rintening 1943-01-01:1943-01-31 Graham Bower Ursula In January Colonel Binny, our immediate C.O., who commanded " V " Force Assam Zone with H.Q. in ..
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Paodekumba Ramgakpa Chapter twenty-seven. The Scheme Begins passes books Paodekumba Ramgakpa Graham Bower Ursula Binny had devised a system of passes by which people moving through the area on lawful business could carry a paper, issued either by Perry or myself, rubber-stamped with a mark which ..
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Khangnam Chapter twenty-eight. The Hangrum Incident visit to Khangnam books Khangnam Graham Bower Ursula (198) On the south of the Barail, a series of the steepest highest spurs possible fanned out from the central peak of Katsingpeo-ki. On the far tip of one of them almost hidden in deep, green ..
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Khangnam Chapter twenty-eight. The Hangrum Incident observation post at Khangnam books Khangnam Graham Bower Ursula Khangnam commanded no route, covered no ford. It was, on the ground, as remote as ever. But far out beyond it on (199) the Silchar plain one could see a raw, red oblong with a pale ..
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Chapter twenty-eight. The Hangrum Incident bombing of air-strip books Graham Bower Ursula We were just at the outcrop, Namkia and I, at nine that morning, when there was a deep, insistent, piercing hum - growing louder, vibrating all round us; the throb of massed engines, high. " A lot," he said. "..
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Chapter twenty-nine. Crisis Japanese advance books 1944-03-28:1944-03-28 Graham Bower Ursula (205) On March 28th, 1944, the midday news which came over on the amenities radio was not good. The Jap attack along the Manipur front seemed to be making progress. The news bulletins, however, didn't say ..
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Perry Paodekumba Tsevo Chapter twenty-eight. The Hangrum Incident search for wreckage of 'plane books Perry Paodekumba Tsevo Graham Bower Ursula Then, some days later, after we returned to Laisong, the Kuki wet-rice demonstrator came panting in. He had a porter with him who carried a knobby sack. ..
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Chapter twenty-nine. Crisis medical assistance to Zemi books Graham Bower Ursula We could look back now on eighteen months of North Cachar Watch and Ward. This last year had been on the whole a good one. There'd been a bad smallpox outbreak in Khangnam and Peisia, just when those villages were cut ..
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Chapter twenty-nine. Crisis scouts books Graham Bower Ursula Namkia came into the room. I could tell by his look, as surely as though the dogs had barked, that strangers were coming. "Who is it?" " Two Sepoy-Sahibs." Boots clumped on the matting in the veranda and I went to the door. There were two..
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Mahur Chapter twenty-nine. Crisis meeting at Mahur books Mahur 1944-04-01:1944-04-01 Graham Bower Ursula I'd had a brief note from Perry by then, summoning me to Mahur on April 1st for a conference. I found him at the rest-house. Any troops that anyone could lay hands on, sections of this, platoons..
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Chapter twenty-nine. Crisis on patrol books Graham Bower Ursula Namkia and I went back next day with the patrol, a company of the Chamar Regiment. We reached Asalu the first night, instead of Laisong, as planned; the men were straight up from the plains and out of training. The following day, there..
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Albright Zhekuingba Chapter twenty-nine. Crisis news of Kuki defection books Albright Zhekuingba Graham Bower Ursula Zhekuingba came from the camp to meet us, and said : " There's a 'V' Force Sahib here." I tramped down the veranda and looked through the door. A fair-haired captain was sitting by ..
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Chapter twenty-nine. Crisis watch and ward books Graham Bower Ursula Our orders were to hang on as long as we could and watch the roads for the enemy advance. As soon as contact was made we should warn Haflong, and then get out as quickly as we could. We took stock in the light of these ..
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Tamenglong Chapter thirty. Looters evacuation books Tamenglong Graham Bower Ursula (213) We didn't have leisure for long to worry only about the Japs. In a few days they were merely incidental. Bodies of Bengali and Madrassi Pioneers, evacuated from Imphal before the siege began, were being marched..
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Albright Khuala Dr. Hailamsuong of Haijaichak Gailuba Impuiloa Hajaichak (Haijaichak) Chapter thirty. Looters Mohendra Dals (Nepalese State Troops); looters books Albright Khuala Dr. Hailamsuong of Haijaichak Gailuba Impuiloa Hajaichak (Haijaichak) Graham Bower Ursula Our only force, apart from the..
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Tibbetts Lt. Riki Ram Supbahadur Rana Kohima Chapter thirty-one. Interlude relief of Kohima; Assam Rifles books Tibbetts Lt. Riki Ram Supbahadur Rana Kohima Graham Bower Ursula (219) Then Kohima was relieved. The story of its amazing defence has never been properly told yet, and should be. The ..
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Archer Capt. Namkia Chapter thirty-one. Interlude Mohendra Dals withdraw and Mahrattas arrive books Archer Capt. Namkia Graham Bower Ursula Then the Laisong forces were further augmented. The Mohendra Dals, who had been increased to a full company under their own officers, were withdrawn and sent ..
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Archer Chapter thirty-one. Interlude leopard in camp books Archer Graham Bower Ursula One night about nine o'clock Archer's quartermaster-havildar, passing the store, which stood across the path from the quarter-guard, noticed the three goats which had just come up as rations standing shivering and..
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Tibbetts Bill Albright Ison Archer Barak R. Chapter thirty-two. Tamenglong crossing the Barak River books Tibbetts Bill Albright Ison Archer Barak R. 1944-05-01:1944-05-31 Graham Bower Ursula (224) In the middle of May we received permission to move forward, permission for which we had been ..
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Thongkim Archer Tibbetts Ison Tamenglong Chapter thirty-two. Tamenglong Tamenglong camp; failure due to bungling books Thongkim Archer Tibbetts Ison Tamenglong Graham Bower Ursula Tamenglong had just been strafed in error by the R.A.F. and we had been warned to duck if we saw fighters, in case (226..
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Tibbetts Archer Joute Chapter thirty-two. Tamenglong back by Joute ferry books Tibbetts Archer Joute Graham Bower Ursula The day we left, Bill's illness lit up again. I was scared, after a while, that he wouldn't make the journey. But he kept going, dosing himself as he went, and never let up or ..
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Perry Albright Scott Laisong Magulong Chapter thirty-two. Tamenglong leave in Calcutta, then 'watch and ward' wound up books Perry Albright Scott Laisong Magulong 1944-11-01:1944-11-31 Graham Bower Ursula I was due for leave and took it, Bill staying in charge. Down in Calcutta, it was an effort to..
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Betts Col. Chapter thirty-three. The Man Who Came to Catch Butterflies Colonel Betts comes to catch butterflies books Betts Col. 1945-05-01:1945-05-31 Graham Bower Ursula (231) There was nothing very much in the mail that day except a letter from a Colonel Betts, of "V" Force, who wanted to come ..
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Chapter thirty-three. The Man Who Came to Catch Butterflies proposal of marriage books Graham Bower Ursula On the fourth day of his stay he came home particularly early. I, who hadn't expected him back before tea-time, was in the kitchen baking a cake when Namkia came in and said the Colonel wanted..
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Chapter thirty-four. Magulong VJ celebrations at Haflong books 1946-01-01:1946-12-31 Graham Bower Ursula (238) Except for flying visits, Tim didn't get back till the spring of 1946, when he appeared finally, demobilized, and trying for a job on the newly-formed North-East Frontier. He found me busy..
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Betts Col. Mills Chapter thirty-three. The Man Who Came to Catch Butterflies Colonel Betts and the 'Naga Queen' to Shillong and marriage books Betts Col. Mills 1945-07-01:1945-07-31 Graham Bower Ursula His baptismal names, it appeared, were Frederick Nicholson, but he was usually known as Tim. His ..
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Khutuing Magulong Chapter thirty-four. Magulong invitation to stay in Magulong books Khutuing Magulong Graham Bower Ursula Magulong was a remarkable settlement, a thing I had come increasingly to realize in the last few years, and its headman Khutuing was not the least remarkable thing about it. I ..
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Khutuing Magulong Chapter thirty-four. Magulong to Magulong books Khutuing Magulong 1946-05-01:1946-05-31 Graham Bower Ursula Various things held us up during April and we didn't start till the beginning of May. Eastward we went, down into the narrow Jiri, up over the far hill- it came on to pour ..
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Chapter thirty-four. Magulong singing books Graham Bower Ursula Tim and I stopped and stared. Still it came; faint, far and haunting. Then, with the field-glasses, we saw. Ranged on a ledge of rock a little below the village, a group of bucks and girls were singing together. All through the long, ..
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Namkia Khutuing Chapter thirty-four. Magulong insistence on re-marriage by Naga rite books Namkia Khutuing Graham Bower Ursula Then we took stock of the wide street nearer at hand. There were the village council, set in a row. There was a line of forty bottles of rice-beer. There may well have been..
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Namde of Magulong Gaidiliu Chapter thirty-four. Magulong visit to Magulong village hide-out books Namde of Magulong Gaidiliu Graham Bower Ursula There were three or four days to wait before everything was ready for the ceremony. I had heard vague rumours from the Zemi of a big cave somewhere near ..
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Khutuing Magulong Chapter thirty-five. Finale Zemi wedding at Magulong books Khutuing Magulong 1946-05-01:1946-05-31 Graham Bower Ursula (246) In the next mail came the news that Tim had his appointment in the North-East Frontier service. He had been given the Subansiri Area, the post we hardly ..
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Chapter thirty-five. Finale leaving Magulong books 1946-05-01:1946-05-31 Graham Bower Ursula The next morning we left. Half the bucks of the village wanted to come with us to work. The village suffered from the Barail's disease - shortage of land and chronic poverty. We took down names and told ..
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Namde Lungchiwong Khutuing Namkia Chapter thirty-five. Finale final departure books Namde Lungchiwong Khutuing Namkia Graham Bower Ursula There was all Laisong camp to pack. While we hammered cases shut, Khutuing, discovering we had no picnic-basket, sat down in a corner and made us one, working ..
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Jiri R. Chapter thirty-five. Finale crossing the flooded Jiri River books Jiri R. Graham Bower Ursula It was already late in May, an unpredictable month, and as we reached Saipimual the weather broke. Out of leaden skies, sheet upon sheet of water fell upon us. The forest streamed, paths gushed ..
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footnotes 1. Accurate figures in this connection are difficult to obtain. Those given here and in Chapter One are based on the results of the 1941 census as supplies by the Subdivisional Officer, Haflong. In the Census of India for 1941, as published, the figures for the North Cachar Hills are ..
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footnotes 2. See J.H.Hutton, "A Negrito Substratum in the Population of Assam", Man in India, 1927, p.258. Angami migration traditions relate that the Angami immigrants found in the present Angami country a people whose dress and customs closely resembled those of the present Konyaks. In this ..
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footnotes 3. Vide infra, pp. 118-139. footnotes 85 3. Vide infra, pp. 118-139. T86663
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footnotes 4. Khutuing informed me that he saw no need to present me with the usual axe and weaving implements as he would have difficulty in procuring them at such short notice and there was little likelihood that I should ever need them, but he felt it essential to give me a woman's rice-basket, ..
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footnotes 1. Stewart (Notes on Northern Cachar, J.A.S.B. Vol. XXIV, pp 656-675 and 685-691) calls them Aroong. footnotes 85 1. Stewart (Notes on Northern Cachar, J.A.S.B. Vol. XXIV, pp 656-675 and 685-691) calls them Aroong. T86678
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footnotes 2. Stewart, op. cit., p. 588 footnotes 85 2. Stewart, op. cit., p. 588 T86679
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footnotes 3. Vide infra, Chapter Five, Land Tenure and Agriculture, pp 107-125, where this is dealt with in detail. footnotes 85 3. Vide infra, Chapter Five, Land Tenure and Agriculture, pp 107-125, where this is dealt with in detail. T86680
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footnotes 4. Where cattle are referred to, the domestic bison, Bos Frontalis, is meant. footnotes 85 4. Where cattle are referred to, the domestic bison, Bos Frontalis, is meant. T86681
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footnotes 1. The British occupation in 1879 effectively ended Angami raiding. During earlier operations in the Angami country a strong band of raiders slipped out from the then besieged Khonoma, raided Baladhan tea-estate in Cachar District, 150 miles distant by the shortest route, and returned ..
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footnotes 2. Vide infra, pp. 126-151. footnotes 85 2. Vide infra, pp. 126-151. T86706
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footnotes 3. Vide infra, p. 145 footnotes 85 3. Vide infra, p. 145 T86707
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footnotes 4. The more individual work of the women is relatively unaffected by the size of the village, except that a larger share of the joint tasks, such as hoeing and weeding the fields, falls to the women if the men are unduly occupied with the constructional work. footnotes 85 4. The more ..
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footnotes 5. 'Upper' indicates the gate nearest to the main range or peak from which the spur derives, and 'lower' that furthest from it. footnotes 85 5. 'Upper' indicates the gate nearest to the main range or peak from which the spur derives, and 'lower' that furthest from it. T86709
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footnotes 6. Stewart, op. cit., p. 589 footnotes 85 6. Stewart, op. cit., p. 589 T86710
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footnotes 7. Krre: the fortified circuit of a village, also a palisade or fence, and any space enclosed by a palisade or fence. Hence krre-poina, "little enclosure". footnotes 85 7. Krre: the fortified circuit of a village, also a palisade or fence, and any space enclosed by a palisade or fence. ..
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footnotes 8. ntsukhang: a stone or rock. Ntsa is used of hearthstones only. footnotes 85 8. ntsukhang: a stone or rock. Ntsa is used of hearthstones only. T86712
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footnotes 9. This was done during the Japanese invasion of Assam in the spring and summer of 1944, when the Nzemi revived many similar obsolete practices. footnotes 85 9. This was done during the Japanese invasion of Assam in the spring and summer of 1944, when the Nzemi revived many similar ..
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footnotes 10. Hangseoki: from rahangmi, an unmarried youth. Similarly leoseoki, from heleomi, an unmarried girl. The Nzemi can give no translation of seoki here, but deny any connection with seoki, a granary. footnotes 85 10. Hangseoki: from rahangmi, an unmarried youth. Similarly leoseoki, from ..
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footnotes 11. Ze: a bench, bed, or platform. The Nzemi can give no translation of nzun. footnotes 85 11. Ze: a bench, bed, or platform. The Nzemi can give no translation of nzun. T86715
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footnotes 12. These combs are of two kinds, one coarse, for general use and the other fine, for the removal of vermin. Both measure about 6 inches long by 4 wide, and are made of bamboo splines bound together. The coarser type may only be made in the first place by a man who has taken a head, ..
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footnotes 13. These are wooden cylinders 2 feet long and 18 inches in diameter, with a deerskin membrane at either end. They are beaten during the ceremonial spearing of wooden images during the winter feast of Hga-ngi, and are used to accompany dances during the winter provided there is no ..
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footnotes 14. Heramui is a potent and in many ways dangerous ceremony. The fourteen great spirits whose names are known are summoned one by one to a ceremonial feast set out as though on a table on the replica of the hazoa mound. Should an undetected error occur in the ritual one or more of the ..
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footnotes 1. The only example of polygyny in the period 1940-6 occurred at Hangrum. The wife of the man concerned had borne him several daughters but no son, and as they were both no longer young, she suggested he should take a second wife who might give him a son. He was at first unwilling, but ..
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footnotes 2. The personal names of married persons are never used by the Central Nzemi, either in address or in the third person. The expressions "father of so-and-so", "mother of so-and-so", using the name of the eldest unmarried child, are employed instead. Similar circumlocutions, using other ..
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footnotes 3. The rain-making ceremony must be performed by a man of the Neomi moiety. See also J.H.Hutton, "Races of Further Asia" Man in India, Vol. XII, No. 1, p.6, on the occurrence of dual organization in this area and the connection of moieties with the earth and sky. footnotes 85 3. The rain-..
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footnotes 4. It is not known who was Nriami's wife. footnotes 85 4. It is not known who was Nriami's wife. T86764
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footnotes 5. Nui is believed to lie to the north-west of the present Nzemi country. footnotes 85 5. Nui is believed to lie to the north-west of the present Nzemi country. T86765
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footnotes 6. Compare the Angami putsa (Hutton, the Angami Nagas, pp. 115-117). The Nzemi word tsami appears to be derived from atsa (grandchild) and mi (people). The Magulong cluster use -nami from ana (child) and mi (people). footnotes 85 6. Compare the Angami putsa (Hutton, the Angami Nagas, pp. ..
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footnotes 7. There has been no Government survey, and there are no official figures of infant mortality rates among the Central Nzemi. Some information is obtainable from genealogical material, and in this respect the genealogies in Appendix A are typical. footnotes 85 7. There has been no ..
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footnotes 8. Vide infra, p.45-6 footnotes 85 8. Vide infra, p.45-6 T86768
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footnotes 9. In 1935 a man named Hozekiemba returned to Laisong from Asalu, to which village his father had moved for reasons Hozekiemba was reluctant to disclose. An Asalu man, Haintseng, moved to Maboa, a Western Nzemi village, also for reasons his kin were reluctant to disclose, married there, ..
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footnotes 10. His personal property is inherited under a different rule. Lungdiliang is provided for during his father's lifetime. Namkia, the youngest son, makes a home for his parents in their old age and inherits the heirlooms and the remaining property at his father's death, subject always to ..
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footnotes 11. Hutton, The Angami Nagas, p.16 "In many Kacha Naga villages exogamous clans are found bearing the names of Khonoma clans, probably adopted as a result of their subjection to Khonoma". This, however, refers to the Northern Nzemi. footnotes 85 11. Hutton, The Angami Nagas, p.16 "In many..
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