- Author:
- Newland, A. G. E.
- Publication Info:
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Calcutta:
Thacker, Spink,
1894,
pg 2
Text on page 2
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Introduction.
on our part, and unprovoked aggression on theirs, marked at but too frequent intervals by the murder of our most devoted frontier officers and the subsequent punitive expeditions. The conversion of Upper Burma into a British province changed our relations with these tribes, which thus had become surrounded by British territory, and could therefore no longer be treated as mere frontier tribes, with whom the less we had to do the better. The tribes in these hills bordering on Burma are usually known as Chins, and those bordering on Bengal and Assam as Lushais. The frequent raids committed on the plain villages by
lushai frontier police.
these tribes called loudly for decisive action ; and in 1888 matters were brought to a climax by the murder of Lieut. Stewart by the Lushais whilst surveyii^g.
A punitive column was sent out to avenge this outrage in the open season of 1888-89, and the same year a force from Burma, under command of General Faunce, C.B., with Major Raikes, C.I.E., as Political Officer, was sent into the country of the Siyin tribe, who, refusing to submit or surrender their Burmese captives, had all their villages destroyed, and the post of Fort White was established.A punitive column was sent out to avenge this outrage in the open season of 1888-89, and the same year a force from Burma, under command of General Faunce, C.B., with Major Raikes, C.I.E., as Political Officer, was sent into the country of the Siyin tribe, who, refusing to submit or surrender their Burmese captives, had all their villages destroyed, and the post of Fort White was established.
