Monday 17 December 2012

4.27 References

4.27
References
[1]In 1823, Captain Adam White was deputed to help Scott in the administration of Lower Assam. He was later made a Major and then a Colonel. In January 1839, when he was the Political Agent, he was killed during a night attack on the British garrison at Sadiya. A History of Assam, Edward Albert Gait, Thacker Spink & Co., Calcutta 1906, University of California.Pg.286 and 305.

[2]This was not the first road to be constructed in the Khasi & Jaintia Hills. In 1824, Ram Singh agreed to allow the construction of a road through the State from Jaintiapur to Nowgong, and Scott himself travelled this road on one occasion.

[3]Memoir of The Late David Scott, Esq., Agent To the Governor General, On The North East Frontier of Bengal, And Commissioner Of Revenue And Circuit In Assam, by Archibald Watson, Baptist Mission Press, Calcutta, 1832 (sold by T.Ostell, British Library).University of California.Pg.37.

[4]The History of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists’ Foreign Mission to the end of the year 1904, John Hughes Morris, 1910.Pg.81.

[5]Influence and contribution of Bengali settlers in Khasi Hills, Prof. David R Syiemlieh. The author who is the Controller of Examinations of NEHU, Shillong, presented this paper on the occasion of celebration of Bengali New Year's Day on April 15. http://www.theshillongtimes.com/b-21aprl.htm.

[6]Meghalaya District Gazetteers,Khasi Hills District, Chapter 7.   http://meghalaya.nic.in/publications/gazetteer_khasi.html

[7]Robert Lindsay was the first Collector of Sylhet in about 1776. Anecdotes of an Indian Life by the Hon. Robert Lindsay in Lives of the Lindsays – Volume 3, pages 147-226; or a memoir of the houses of Crawford and Balcarres, by Lord Lindsay to which are added, extracts from the official correspondence of Alexander sixth Earl of Balcarres, during the Maroon War; together with personal narratives by his brothers, the Hon. Robert, Colin, James, John, and Hugh Linsay; and by his sister, Lady Anne Barnard. Published by John Murray, Albemarle Street, London, 1849.

[8]Plantations/villages are known by the Khasi as punji. As far as Cherrapunji is concerned, cherra means stream or water, so the name translates as 'the plantation by the stream'.

[9]The Quarterly Oriental Magazine, Review and Register, Thacker & Co., Calcutta, 1827, Harvard University Library.

[10]Missionary Journals and Letters written during eleven years’ residence and travels amongst the Chinese, Siamese, Javanese, Khassias, and other eastern nations. By Jacob Tomlin, publisher James Nisbet and Co., London, 1844. New York Public Library. Pg.374.

[11]Memoir of The Late David Scott, Esq., Agent To the Governor General, On The North East Frontier of Bengal, And Commissioner Of Revenue And Circuit In Assam, by Archibald Watson, Baptist Mission Press, Calcutta, 1832 (sold by T.Ostell, British Library).University of California.Pg.27 and 28.

[12]A bridle path (also bridleway, bridle road) is a thoroughfare originally made for horses. Bridle paths were transport routes where the country was so steep that the route was impassable by wheeled traffic (Source Wikipedia).

[13]Philemon, E. P. 1995, Cherrapunjee: the arena of rain - a history and guide to Sohra & Shillong / E.P. Philemon  Spectrum Publications, Guwahati.

[14]A historical term for manual labourers from Asia, particularly China and India, in the 19th century and early 20th century (Source Wikipedia).

[15]A tonga is a light horse-drawn carriage used for transportation in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh (Source Wikipedia).

[16]Khasis and the Welsh Legacy, Basil Griffiths. Akashi Book Depot, Shillong, 2007.Pg.87.

[17]No.CVII, Roads in Assam (second article), Report on the Road from Gowhatty to the Sylhet River, by Major D, Briggs, Superintendant of Works in Assam, about 1862. Published in the Professional Papers in Indian Engineering, Vol. III, 1866.

[18]Annual Report on the Administration of the Bengal Presidency for 1863-64.O.T.Cutter, Military Orphan Press, 1865.

[19]A statistical account of Assam, Volume 2, 1879, William Wilson Hunter, Trubner & Co., London. University of Michigan, Pg.214-264.

[20]Memoirs of the Geographical Survey of India, Vol. 29, Messrs. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., London, 1899.Report on the great earthquake of 1897, by Richard Dixon Oldham. Appendix A: T.D. LaTouche. Stanford University.Pg.272.

[21]Assam district gazetteers, Volume 10, B.C. Allen, Baptist Mission Press, 1906, Harvard University. http://www.archive.org/stream/assamdistrictga00allegoog#page/n48/mode/1up.

[22]The History and Culture of the Khasi People, Third Edition, Dr. Hamlet Bareh, Spectrum Publications, Guwahati,1997, Pg.116.

[23]Memoirs of the Geographical Survey of India, Vol. 29, Messrs. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., London, 1899.Report on the great earthquake of 1897, by Richard Dixon Oldham. Appendix A: T.D. LaTouche. Stanford University.Pg.30.

[24]Government of India, Ministry of Finance, (Department of Revenue), 4 June 2010. Notification No. 45/2010 – Customs (N.T.). http://www.cbec.gov.in/customs/cs-act/notifications/notfns-2k10/cs-nt2k10/csnt45-2k10.htm

[25]http://www.megassembly.gov.in/proceedings/1972/29-06-1972.htm

[26]A beaten trail, path or a track, especially through wild or open territory, made by the regular passage of people, animals, or vehicles.

[27]Taylor, S.B.; "Ecclesiastical Report of Lower Assam for the Year 1880", One Hundred Years, A short account of the Anglican Church in Assam, 1930, pp. 6-7. Philemon, E. P. 1995, Cherrapunjee: the arena of rain - a history and guide to Sohra & Shillong / E.P. Philemon  Spectrum Publications, Guwahati.

[28]Sport in British Burmah, Assam, and the Cassyah and Jyntiah hills. with notes of sport in the hilly districts of the northern division, Madras Presidency, indicating the best localities in those countries for sport, with natural history notes, illustrations of the people, scenery, and game, together with maps to guide the traveller or sportsman, and hints on weapons, fishing-tackle, etc., best suited for killing game met with in those provinces. Volume 2. Lieutenant Colonel Fitz William Thomas Pollock, Chapman and Hall, London, 1879. Harvard University.Pg.76.

[29]The Khasis, By Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Richard Thornhagh Gurdon, Commissioner of Assam valley Districts and Honorary Director of Ethnography in Assam. Published under the orders of the Assam Administration (Second Edition). Macmillan and Co., London, 1914. University of Michigan.Pg.

[30]Sport in British Burmah, Assam, and the Cassyah and Jyntiah hills. with notes of sport in the hilly districts of the northern division, Madras Presidency, indicating the best localities in those countries for sport, with natural history notes, illustrations of the people, scenery, and game, together with maps to guide the traveller or sportsman, and hints on weapons, fishing-tackle, etc., best suited for killing game met with in those provinces. Volume 2. Lieutenant Colonel Fitz William Thomas Pollock, Chapman and Hall, London, 1879. Harvard University.Pg.75.

[31]84 lbs./42 kgs.

[32]Four annas was 25 paise or 0.25 Rupee.

[33]Golgotha is the biblical name for the place where Jesus was crucified.

[34]Philemon, E. P.  1995,  Cherrapunjee : the arena of rain : a history and guide to Sohra & Shillong / E.P. Philemon  Spectrum Publications, Guwahati.

[35]As used in many parts of South Asia, the term ghat refers to a series of steps leading down to a water body, usually a holy river. In Bengali-speaking regions, this set of stairs can lead down to something as small as a pond or as large as a major river.

[36]Missionary Journals and Letters written during eleven years’ residence and travels amongst the Chinese, Siamese, Javanese, Khassias, and other eastern nations. By Jacob Tomlin, publisher James Nisbet and Co., London, 1844. New York Public Library. Pgs. 373 and 374.

[37]Koh-kit-briew or Toppah.

[38]Report on the Eastern Frontier of British India, with an Appendix, and Maps. By Captain Robert Boileau Pemberton, 44th Native Infantry, Late Joint Commissioner in Muneepoor. Baptist Mission Press, Calcutta, 1835. The University of California. Pg.243. 

[39]Shallow lakes characteristic of Sylhet.

[40]The History of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists’ Foreign Mission to the end of the year 1904, John Hughes Morris, 1910.Pg.88.

[41]Himalayan Journals; or Notes Of A Naturalist in Bengal, The Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, The Khasia Mountains Etc., By Joseph Dalton Hooker, with Maps and Illustrations, Volume 2. Published by John Murray, London, 1854. Bibliotheque Nationale Et Universitaire, Lausanne. Pg 266.

[42]The Calcutta Review, Vol. Xxvii, July-December 1856, Stanford University. Seramore and W.H. Allen and Co., London. The Geological Structure of part of the Khasia Hills, with Observations on the Meteorology and Ethnology of that District (observations made in the Khasi Hills in 1851 and 1852). By Thomas Oldham, Superintendent of the Geological Survey of India, Calcutta 1854.Pg.56.

[43]Memories of seven campaigns, a record of thirty five years’ service in the Indian Medical Department in India, China, Egypt, and the Sudan, By James Howard Thornton, Deputy Surgeon-General Indian Medical Service (Retired) Late Principal Medical Officer, Punjab Frontier Force. Published by Archibald Constable and Co., Westminster, 1895. Boston University.Pg.116.

[44]The History of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists’ Foreign Mission to the end of the year 1904, John Hughes Morris, 1910.Pg.157.

[45]Sport in British Burmah, Assam, and the Cassyah and Jyntiah hills. with notes of sport in the hilly districts of the northern division, Madras Presidency, indicating the best localities in those countries for sport, with natural history notes, illustrations of the people, scenery, and game, together with maps to guide the traveller or sportsman, and hints on weapons, fishing-tackle, etc., best suited for killing game met with in those provinces. Volume 2. Lieutenant Colonel Fitz William Thomas Pollock, Chapman and Hall, London, 1879. Harvard University.Pg.73.

[46]The History of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists’ Foreign Mission to the end of the year 1904, John Hughes Morris, 1910.Pg 59.

[47]The Khasis, By Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Richard Thornhagh Gurdon, Commissioner of Assam valley Districts and Honorary Director of Ethnography in Assam. Published under the orders of the Assam Administration (Second Edition). Macmillan and Co., London, 1914. University of Michigan.Pg.4.

[48]The Khasis, By Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Richard Thornhagh Gurdon, Commissioner of Assam valley Districts and Honorary Director of Ethnography in Assam. Published under the orders of the Assam Administration (Second Edition). Macmillan and Co., London, 1914. University of Michigan.Pg.182.

[49]In 1886, he co-authored Hobson-Jobson, a dictionary of Anglo-Indian colloquial phrases.

[50]The Calcutta Review, Vol. Xxxviii. Published by R.C. Lepage and Co. Calcutta and London, 1863.Indiana University Library.Pg.273.

[51]Himalayan Journals; or Notes Of A Naturalist in Bengal, The Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, The Khasia Mountains Etc., By Joseph Dalton Hooker, with Maps and Illustrations, Volume 2. Published by John Murray, London, 1854. Bibliotheque Nationale Et Universitaire, Lausanne. Pg. 268 and 271.

[52]The Calcutta Review, Vol. Xxvii, July-December 1856, Stanford University. Seramore and W.H. Allen and Co., London. The Geological Structure of part of the Khasia Hills, with Observations on the Meteorology and Ethnology of that District (observations made in the Khasi Hills in 1851 and 1852). By Thomas Oldham, Superintendent of the Geological Survey of India, Calcutta 1854.Pg.57.

[53]Memoirs of the Geographical Survey of India, Vol. 29, Messrs. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., London, 1899.Report on the great earthquake of 1897, by Richard Dixon Oldham. Appendix A: T.D. LaTouche. Stanford University.Pg.273.

[54]The eating of salt off the blade of a sword being one of the Khasi forms of oath.

[55]The Calcutta Review, Vol. Xxxviii. Published by R.C. Lepage and Co. Calcutta and London, 1863.Indiana University Library.Pg.272.

[56]Himalayan Journals; or Notes Of A Naturalist in Bengal, The Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, The Khasia Mountains Etc., By Joseph Dalton Hooker, with Maps and Illustrations, Volume 2. Published by John Murray, London, 1854. Bibliotheque Nationale Et Universitaire, Lausanne. Pg. 458.

[57]Umiam-Mawphlang/Umiew/Bogra/Bogapani: This river, also known as the Umiam-Mawphlang rises on the southern slopes of the Shillong Peak near a village called Pamlakrai near Smit.  It is crossed by the current Shillong-Cherra road on an iron bridge at Umtyngngar and forms the Elephant Falls.  Thereafter it emerges into the ravines on the eastern side of the Mawphlang ridge.  Near the plains the river passes near the village of Shella and falls into the Surma river, west of Chatak near Duwara Bazar in Bangladesh. 

[58]The Khasis, By Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Richard Thornhagh Gurdon, Commissioner of Assam valley Districts and Honorary Director of Ethnography in Assam. Published under the orders of the Assam Administration (Second Edition). Macmillan and Co., London, 1914. University of Michigan.Pg.161.

[59]http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Chasing+the+Rain+in+Cherrapunjee-a0206966535

[60]http://www.india9.com/i9show/-Meghalaya/Laitkynsew-70969.htm

[61]http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Chasing+the+Rain+in+Cherrapunjee-a0206966535

[62]http://cherrapunjee.com/index.php?mid=14&pid=

[63]The Quarterly Oriental Magazine, Review and Register, Vol 7, Nos.13,14, January-June 1827. Thacker & Co. Calcutta. Harvard College Library. Pg.CLX.

[64]Report on the Eastern Frontier of British India, with an Appendix, and Maps. By Captain Robert Boileau Pemberton, 44th Native Infantry, Late Joint Commissioner in Muneepoor. Baptist Mission Press, Calcutta, 1835. The University of California.Pg.255.

[65]Missionary Journals and Letters written during eleven years’ residence and travels amongst the Chinese, Siamese, Javanese, Khassias, and other eastern nations. By Jacob Tomlin, publisher James Nisbet and Co., London, 1844. New York Public Library. Pgs. 377 and 378.

[66]The history of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists’ foreign mission, to the end of the year 1904, by John Hughes Morris. Indus Publishing Company, New Delhi, 1996. Pg.49.

[67]Ibid.Pg.51.

[68]Brown-May, Andrew. ‘Sex and Salvation: Modelling Gender on an Indian Mission Station’ in Evangelists of Empire?: Missionaries in Colonial History, ed. Amanda Barry, Joanna Cruickshank, Andrew Brown-May and Patricia Grimshaw [online] Melbourne: University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre, 2008.Pg.33.

[69]Himalayan Journals; or Notes Of A Naturalist in Bengal, The Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, The Khasia Mountains Etc., By Joseph Dalton Hooker, with Maps and Illustrations, Volume 2. Published by John Murray, London, 1854. Bibliotheque Nationale Et Universitaire, Lausanne. Pg.461.

[70]The Khasis, By Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Richard Thornhagh Gurdon, Commissioner of Assam valley Districts and Honorary Director of Ethnography in Assam. Published under the orders of the Assam Administration (Second Edition). Macmillan and Co., London, 1914. University of Michigan.Pg.146.

[71]Ibid.Pg.113 and 114.

[72]Assam district gazetteers, Volume 10, B.C. Allen, Baptist Mission Press, 1906, Harvard University.Pg.98.

[73]Assam district gazetteers, Volume 10, B.C. Allen, Baptist Mission Press, 1906, Harvard University.Pg.99.

[74]Wah Umiong/Umiam/Kalapani/Piyain (Nullah).

[75]Himalayan Journals; or Notes Of A Naturalist in Bengal, The Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, The Khasia Mountains Etc., By Joseph Dalton Hooker, with Maps and Illustrations, Volume 2. Published by John Murray, London, 1854. Bibliotheque Nationale Et Universitaire, Lausanne. Pg.462.

[76]The Calcutta Review, Vol. Xxvii, July-December 1856, Stanford University. Seramore and W.H. Allen and Co., London. The Geological Structure of part of the Khasia Hills, with Observations on the Meteorology and Ethnology of that District (observations made in the Khasi Hills in 1851 and 1852). By Thomas Oldham, Superintendent of the Geological Survey of India, Calcutta 1854.Pg71.

[77]Posthumous Papers bequeathed to the Honorable East India Company, and printed by order of the Government of Bengal. Journal Of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bootan, Affghanistan and The neighbouring Countries. By the Late William Griffiths. Bishop’s College Press, Calcutta, 1847. University of California at Berkeley. Pg. 7 and 8.

[78]Report on the Eastern Frontier of British India, with an Appendix, and Maps. By Captain Robert Boileau Pemberton, 44th Native Infantry, Late Joint Commissioner in Muneepoor. Baptist Mission Press, Calcutta, 1835. The University of California. Pg.246.

[79]Himalayan Journals; or Notes Of A Naturalist in Bengal, The Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, The Khasia Mountains Etc., By Joseph Dalton Hooker, with Maps and Illustrations, Volume 2. Published by John Murray, London, 1854. Bibliotheque Nationale Et Universitaire, Lausanne.Pg.285 and 286.

[80]Himalayan Journals; or Notes Of A Naturalist in Bengal, The Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, The Khasia Mountains Etc., By Joseph Dalton Hooker, with Maps and Illustrations, Volume 2. Published by John Murray, London, 1854. Bibliotheque Nationale Et Universitaire, Lausanne.Pg.292.

[81]Memories of seven campaigns (1862-1869), a record of thirty five years’ service in the Indian Medical Department in India, China, Egypt, and the Sudan, By James Howard Thornton, Deputy Surgeon-General Indian Medical Service (Retired) Late Principal Medical Officer, Punjab Frontier Force. Published by Archibald Constable and Co., Westminster, 1895. Boston University.Pg.134.

[82]Report on the Eastern Frontier of British India, with an Appendix, and Maps. By Captain Robert Boileau Pemberton, 44th Native Infantry, Late Joint Commissioner in Muneepoor. Baptist Mission Press, Calcutta, 1835. The University of California.Pg.245.

[83]The Calcutta Review, Vol. Xxvii, July-December 1856, Stanford University. Seramore and W.H. Allen and Co., London. The Geological Structure of part of the Khasia Hills, with Observations on the Meteorology and Ethnology of that District (observations made in the Khasi Hills in 1851 and 1852). By Thomas Oldham, Superintendent of the Geological Survey of India, Calcutta 1854.Pg.72.

[84]Ibid.

[85]Wild Sports of Burmah and Assam. By Colonel Pollock, Late Staff Corps, and W.S.Thom, Assistant District Superintendent of Police, Burmah. Hurst and Blackett, London, 1900. University of California, Berkeley.Pg.493.

[86]http://cherrapunjee.com/index.php?mid=14&pid=

[87]http://megtourism.gov.in/sportsadventure.html

[88]Memoir of the Late David Scott, Esq. Agent To The Governor General, On The North-east Frontier Of Bengal, and Commissioner Of Revenue and Circuit in Assam. By Archibald Watson. Baptist mission Press, Calcutta, 1832. University of California. Pg.97.

[89]An open chair, with a hood, carried on men's shoulders.

[90]Posthumous Papers bequeathed to the Honorable East India Company, and printed by order of the Government of Bengal. Journal Of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bootan, Affghanistan and The neighbouring Countries. By the Late William Griffiths. Bishop’s College Press, Calcutta, 1847. University of California at Berkeley.Pg.8.

[91]Himalayan Journals; or Notes Of A Naturalist in Bengal, The Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, The Khasia Mountains Etc., By Joseph Dalton Hooker, with Maps and Illustrations, Volume 2. Published by John Murray, London, 1854. Bibliotheque Nationale Et Universitaire, Lausanne.Pg.289.

[92]Ibid.

[93]Memories of seven campaigns, a record of thirty five years’ service in the Indian Medical Department in India, China, Egypt, and the Sudan, By James Howard Thornton, Deputy Surgeon-General Indian Medical Service (Retired) Late Principal Medical Officer, Punjab Frontier Force. Published by Archibald Constable and Co., Westminster, 1895. Boston University.Pg.134.

[94]Sport in British Burmah, Assam, and the Cassyah and Jyntiah hills. with notes of sport in the hilly districts of the northern division, Madras Presidency, indicating the best localities in those countries for sport, with natural history notes, illustrations of the people, scenery, and game, together with maps to guide the traveller or sportsman, and hints on weapons, fishing-tackle, etc., best suited for killing game met with in those provinces. Volume 2. Lieutenant Colonel Fitz William Thomas Pollock, Chapman and Hall, London, 1879. Harvard University.Pg.31.

[95]The History of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists’ Foreign Mission to the end of the year 1904, John Hughes Morris, 1910.Pg.177.

[96]Khasis and the Welsh Legacy, Basil Griffiths. Akashi Book Depot, Shillong, 2007.Pg.87.

[97]Supplement to Tom LaTouche and the Great Assam Earthquake of 12 June 1897: Letters from the Epicenter by Roger Bilham, University of Colorado at Boulder.

[98]Ibid.

[99]In the vicinity of the Khasi village, often just below the brow of the hill to the leeward side, are to be seen dark woods of oak and other trees. These are the sacred groves. Here the villagers worship U ryngkew U basa, the tutelary deity of the village. These groves are taboo, and it is an offence to cut trees therein for any purpose other than for performing funeral obsequies.


[101]Sport in British Burmah, Assam, and the Cassyah and Jyntiah hills. with notes of sport in the hilly districts of the northern division, Madras Presidency, indicating the best localities in those countries for sport, with natural history notes, illustrations of the people, scenery, and game, together with maps to guide the traveller or sportsman, and hints on weapons, fishing-tackle, etc., best suited for killing game met with in those provinces. Volume 2. Lieutenant Colonel Fitz William Thomas Pollock, Chapman and Hall, London, 1879. Harvard University.Pg.32.

[102]http://db.nedfi.com/content/adventure-tourism.

[103]Himalayan Journals; or Notes Of A Naturalist in Bengal, The Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, The Khasia Mountains Etc., By Joseph Dalton Hooker, with Maps and Illustrations, Volume 2. Published by John Murray, London, 1854. Bibliotheque Nationale Et Universitaire, Lausanne.Pg.291.

[104]Memoir of The Late David Scott, Esq., Agent To the Governor General, On The North East Frontier of Bengal, And Commissioner Of Revenue And Circuit In Assam, by Archibald Watson, Baptist Mission Press, Calcutta, 1832 (sold by T.Ostell, British Library).University of California.Pg.110.

[105]Report on the Eastern Frontier of British India, with an Appendix, and Maps. By Captain Robert Boileau Pemberton, 44th Native Infantry, Late Joint Commissioner in Muneepoor. Baptist Mission Press, Calcutta, 1835. The University of California. Pg.245.

[106]Posthumous Papers bequeathed to the Honorable East India Company, and printed by order of the Government of Bengal. Journal Of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bootan, Affghanistan and The neighbouring Countries. By the Late William Griffiths. Bishop’s College Press, Calcutta, 1847. University of California at Berkeley.Pg.8.

[107]Memoir of The Late David Scott, Esq., Agent To the Governor General, On The North East Frontier of Bengal, And Commissioner Of Revenue And Circuit In Assam, by Archibald Watson, Baptist Mission Press, Calcutta, 1832 (sold by T.Ostell, British Library).University of California. Pg.41.

[108]Himalayan Journals; or Notes Of A Naturalist in Bengal, The Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, The Khasia Mountains Etc., By Joseph Dalton Hooker, with Maps and Illustrations, Volume 2. Published by John Murray, London, 1854. Bibliotheque Nationale Et Universitaire, Lausanne. Pg.291.

[109]The Calcutta Review, Vol. Xxvii, July-December 1856, Stanford University. Seramore and W.H. Allen and Co., London. The Geological Structure of part of the Khasia Hills, with Observations on the Meteorology and Ethnology of that District (observations made in the Khasi Hills in 1851 and 1852). By Thomas Oldham, Superintendent of the Geological Survey of India, Calcutta 1854.Pg.74.

[110]Himalayan Journals; or Notes Of A Naturalist in Bengal, The Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, The Khasia Mountains Etc., By Joseph Dalton Hooker, with Maps and Illustrations, Volume 2. Published by John Murray, London, 1854. Bibliotheque Nationale Et Universitaire, Lausanne. Pg.292.

[111]Memoir of The Late David Scott, Esq., Agent To the Governor General, On The North East Frontier of Bengal, And Commissioner Of Revenue And Circuit In Assam, by Archibald Watson, Baptist Mission Press, Calcutta, 1832 (sold by T.Ostell, British Library).University of California. Pg.117.

[112]Ibid.Pg.50.

[113]Report on the Eastern Frontier of British India, with an Appendix, and Maps. By Captain Robert Boileau Pemberton, 44th Native Infantry, Late Joint Commissioner in Muneepoor. Baptist Mission Press, Calcutta, 1835. The University of California.Pg.251.

[114]Posthumous Papers bequeathed to the Honorable East India Company, and printed by order of the Government of Bengal. Journal Of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bootan, Affghanistan and The neighbouring Countries. By the Late William Griffiths. Bishop’s College Press, Calcutta, 1847. University of California at Berkeley.Pg.8.

[115]Himalayan Journals; or Notes Of A Naturalist in Bengal, The Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, The Khasia Mountains Etc., By Joseph Dalton Hooker, with Maps and Illustrations, Volume 2. Published by John Murray, London, 1854. Bibliotheque Nationale Et Universitaire, Lausanne. Pg.292.

[116]Ibid.

[117]Sport in British Burmah, Assam, and the Cassyah and Jyntiah hills. with notes of sport in the hilly districts of the northern division, Madras Presidency, indicating the best localities in those countries for sport, with natural history notes, illustrations of the people, scenery, and game, together with maps to guide the traveller or sportsman, and hints on weapons, fishing-tackle, etc., best suited for killing game met with in those provinces. Volume 2. Lieutenant Colonel Fitz William Thomas Pollock, Chapman and Hall, London, 1879. Harvard University.Pg.31.

[118]The Khasis, By Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Richard Thornhagh Gurdon, Commissioner of Assam valley Districts and Honorary Director of Ethnography in Assam. Published under the orders of the Assam Administration (Second Edition). Macmillan and Co., London, 1914. University of Michigan.Pg.27.

[119]The Calcutta Review, Vol. Xxxviii, 1863. Notes on the Khasia Hills and People. By Lieutenant H.Yule, Bengal Engineers. “Journal of the Asiatic Society” No. CLII. 1844, Calcutta. Indiana University.Pg.275.

[120]Himalayan Journals; or Notes Of A Naturalist in Bengal, The Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, The Khasia Mountains Etc., By Joseph Dalton Hooker, with Maps and Illustrations, Volume 2. Published by John Murray, London, 1854. Bibliotheque Nationale Et Universitaire, Lausanne. Pg.294-296.

[121]The Calcutta Review, Vol. Xxvii, July-December 1856, Stanford University. Seramore and W.H. Allen and Co., London. The Geological Structure of part of the Khasia Hills, with Observations on the Meteorology and Ethnology of that District (observations made in the Khasi Hills in 1851 and 1852). By Thomas Oldham, Superintendent of the Geological Survey of India, Calcutta 1854.Pg.75.

[122]Memories of seven campaigns, a record of thirty five years’ service in the Indian Medical Department in India, China, Egypt, and the Sudan, By James Howard Thornton, Deputy Surgeon-General Indian Medical Service (Retired) Late Principal Medical Officer, Punjab Frontier Force. Published by Archibald Constable and Co., Westminster, 1895. Boston University.Pg.134,135.

[123]The Khasis, By Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Richard Thornhagh Gurdon, Commissioner of Assam valley Districts and Honorary Director of Ethnography in Assam. Published under the orders of the Assam Administration (Second Edition). Macmillan and Co., London, 1914. University of Michigan.Pg.162.

[124]The Umngot river rises from the eastern part of the Shillong Peak near a village called Smit (and to the right of Laitlynkot), suddenly turns towards the south where it forms the boundary between East Khasi Hills District and Jaintia Hills District, it then emerges through the gorge at Shnongpden, continues in its less turbulent form to flow by the fine gorge near Dawki and enters into the plains of Bangladesh. 

[125]Memoir of The Late David Scott, Esq., Agent To the Governor General, On The North East Frontier of Bengal, And Commissioner Of Revenue And Circuit In Assam, by Archibald Watson, Baptist Mission Press, Calcutta, 1832 (sold by T.Ostell, British Library).University of California.Pg.33.

[126]Ibid.Pg.34.

[127]Ibid.Pg.102.

[128]Ibid.Pg.95.

[129]Ibid.Pg.95,96. Appendix No. 11: Extract of a letter from Mr. Scott to Mr. Lamb, Nunkhlow, 14 April 1827.

[130]Report on the Eastern Frontier of British India, with an Appendix, and Maps. By Captain Robert Boileau Pemberton, 44th Native Infantry, Late Joint Commissioner in Muneepoor. Baptist Mission Press, Calcutta, 1835. The University of California. Pg.246.

[131]Memoir of The Late David Scott, Esq., Agent To the Governor General, On The North East Frontier of Bengal, And Commissioner Of Revenue And Circuit In Assam, by Archibald Watson, Baptist Mission Press, Calcutta, 1832 (sold by T.Ostell, British Library).University of California.Pg.102. Appendix No. 15: Extract of a letter from Mr. Scott to Mr. Lamb, Gowahatty, 18 July 1827.

[132]A junior rank of commissioned officer in the armed forces. As the junior officer in an infantry regiment was traditionally the carrier of the ensign flag, the rank itself acquired the name.

[133]Ibid.Pg.111. Appendix No. 15: Extract of a letter from Mr. Scott, dated Gowalparah, 28th April, 1831, to Lieut. H. Vetch, of the Assam Light Infantry.

[134]The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and its Dependencies, Volume 28, July to December 1829. Printed by Parbury, Allen & Co., London 1829. University of Michigan.Pg.595.

[135]Memoir of The Late David Scott, Esq., Agent To the Governor General, On The North East Frontier of Bengal, And Commissioner Of Revenue And Circuit In Assam, by Archibald Watson, Baptist Mission Press, Calcutta, 1832 (sold by T.Ostell, British Library).University of California.Pg.39.

[136]Missionary Journals and Letters written during eleven years’ residence and travels amongst the Chinese, Siamese, Javanese, Khassias, and other eastern nations. By Jacob Tomlin, publisher James Nisbet and Co., London, 1844. New York Public Library. Pg.377.

[137]The North East Frontier of India, Alexander Mackenzie, Mittal Publications, New Delhi,1995,Pg.231.

[138]Posthumous Papers bequeathed to the Honorable East India Company, and printed by order of the Government of Bengal. Journal Of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bootan, Affghanistan and The neighbouring Countries. By the Late William Griffiths. Bishop’s College Press, Calcutta, 1847. University of California at Berkeley.Pg.9.

[139]The Calcutta Review, Vol. Xxxviii, 1863. Notes on the Khasia Hills and People. By Lieutenant H.Yule, Bengal Engineers. “Journal of the Asiatic Society” No. CLII. 1844, Calcutta. Indiana University.Pg.276.

[140]Himalayan Journals; or Notes Of A Naturalist in Bengal, The Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, The Khasia Mountains Etc., By Joseph Dalton Hooker, with Maps and Illustrations, Volume 2. Published by John Murray, London, 1854. Bibliotheque Nationale Et Universitaire, Lausanne. Pg.300.

[141]Ibid.Pg.301.

[142]Ibid.Pg.302.

[143]The Calcutta Review, Vol. Xxvii, July-December 1856, Stanford University. Seramore and W.H. Allen and Co., London. The Geological Structure of part of the Khasia Hills, with Observations on the Meteorology and Ethnology of that District (observations made in the Khasi Hills in 1851 and 1852). By Thomas Oldham, Superintendent of the Geological Survey of India, Calcutta 1854.Pg.75.

[144]Memories of seven campaigns, a record of thirty five years’ service in the Indian Medical Department in India, China, Egypt, and the Sudan, By James Howard Thornton, Deputy Surgeon-General Indian Medical Service (Retired) Late Principal Medical Officer, Punjab Frontier Force. Published by Archibald Constable and Co., Westminster, 1895. Boston University.Pg.135.

[145]Sport in British Burmah, Assam, and the Cassyah and Jyntiah hills. with notes of sport in the hilly districts of the northern division, Madras Presidency, indicating the best localities in those countries for sport, with natural history notes, illustrations of the people, scenery, and game, together with maps to guide the traveller or sportsman, and hints on weapons, fishing-tackle, etc., best suited for killing game met with in those provinces. Volume 2. Lieutenant Colonel Fitz William Thomas Pollock, Chapman and Hall, London, 1879. Harvard University.Pg.43.

[146]Nongkhlaw State, also known as Hima Khadsawphra. Literally, Khadsawphra means ‘fourteen eight’ reflecting the fourteen and eight areas within its fold. There were fourteen villages of Nongkhlaw and eight units in Shella which acceded to Nongkhlaw.

[147]The History of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists’ Foreign Mission to the end of the year 1904, John Hughes Morris, 1910, Pg.210.

[148]A quotation from Horace, Odes, Carm.1.24, lines 3-10. An inscription on the South side of the nave of St. Peter's, Broughton, North Staffordshre Memorial Inscription.

[149]Memoir of The Late David Scott, Esq., Agent To the Governor General, On The North East Frontier of Bengal, And Commissioner Of Revenue And Circuit In Assam, by Archibald Watson, Baptist Mission Press, Calcutta, 1832 (sold by T.Ostell, British Library).University of California. Pg.111. Appendix No. 23: Extract of a letter from Mr. Scott, dated Goalpara, 28 April 1831, to Lieut. H. Vetch, of the Assam Light Infantry.

[150]Ibid.Pg.124.

[151]Khri/Wah Khri/Kulsi:This river rises near the village of Laitdom close to Mairang in West Khasi Hills. It flows through largely forested area. After some kilometers, it debouches into the Assam plains as the Kulsi, and joins the Khri-Synnia.

[152]Posthumous Papers bequeathed to the Honorable East India Company, and printed by order of the Government of Bengal. Journal Of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bootan, Affghanistan and The neighbouring Countries. By the Late William Griffiths. Bishop’s College Press, Calcutta, 1847. University of California at Berkeley.Pg.10.

[153]Himalayan Journals; or Notes Of A Naturalist in Bengal, The Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, The Khasia Mountains Etc., By Joseph Dalton Hooker, with Maps and Illustrations, Volume 2. Published by John Murray, London, 1854. Bibliotheque Nationale Et Universitaire, Lausanne. Pg.301.

[154]The Calcutta Review, Vol. Xxvii, July-December 1856, Stanford University. Seramore and W.H. Allen and Co., London. The Geological Structure of part of the Khasia Hills, with Observations on the Meteorology and Ethnology of that District (observations made in the Khasi Hills in 1851 and 1852). By Thomas Oldham, Superintendent of the Geological Survey of India, Calcutta 1854.Pg.75.

[155]Memories of seven campaigns, a record of thirty five years’ service in the Indian Medical Department in India, China, Egypt, and the Sudan, By James Howard Thornton, Deputy Surgeon-General Indian Medical Service (Retired) Late Principal Medical Officer, Punjab Frontier Force. Published by Archibald Constable and Co., Westminster, 1895. Boston University.Pg.135.

[156]Posthumous Papers bequeathed to the Honorable East India Company, and printed by order of the Government of Bengal. Journal Of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bootan, Affghanistan and The neighbouring Countries. By the Late William Griffiths. Bishop’s College Press, Calcutta, 1847. University of California at Berkeley.Pg.10.

[157]Memories of seven campaigns, a record of thirty five years’ service in the Indian Medical Department in India, China, Egypt, and the Sudan, By James Howard Thornton, Deputy Surgeon-General Indian Medical Service (Retired) Late Principal Medical Officer, Punjab Frontier Force. Published by Archibald Constable and Co., Westminster, 1895. Boston University.Pg.136.

[158]Sport in British Burmah, Assam, and the Cassyah and Jyntiah hills. with notes of sport in the hilly districts of the northern division, Madras Presidency, indicating the best localities in those countries for sport, with natural history notes, illustrations of the people, scenery, and game, together with maps to guide the traveller or sportsman, and hints on weapons, fishing-tackle, etc., best suited for killing game met with in those provinces. Volume 2. Lieutenant Colonel Fitz William Thomas Pollock, Chapman and Hall, London, 1879. Harvard University.Pg.30.

[159]The serows are six species of medium-sized goat-like or antelope-like mammals of the genus Capricorni (Source:Wikipedia).

[160]No.CVII, Roads in Assam (second article), Report on the Road from Gowhatty to the Sylhet River, by Major D, Briggs, Superintendant of Works in Assam, about 1862. Published in the Professional Papers in Indian Engineering, Vol. III, 1866.

[161]Report on the Eastern Frontier of British India, with an Appendix, and Maps. By Captain Robert Boileau Pemberton, 44th Native Infantry, Late Joint Commissioner in Muneepoor. Baptist Mission Press, Calcutta, 1835. The University of California. Pg.243.

[162]Posthumous Papers bequeathed to the Honorable East India Company, and printed by order of the Government of Bengal. Journal Of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bootan, Affghanistan and The neighbouring Countries. By the Late William Griffiths. Bishop’s College Press, Calcutta, 1847. University of California at Berkeley.Pg.11.

[163]Report on the Eastern Frontier of British India, with an Appendix, and Maps. By Captain Robert Boileau Pemberton, 44th Native Infantry, Late Joint Commissioner in Muneepoor. Baptist Mission Press, Calcutta, 1835. The University of California. Pg.243.

[164]The Calcutta Review, Vol. Xxvii, July-December 1856, Stanford University. Seramore and W.H. Allen and Co., London. The Geological Structure of part of the Khasia Hills, with Observations on the Meteorology and Ethnology of that District (observations made in the Khasi Hills in 1851 and 1852). By Thomas Oldham, Superintendent of the Geological Survey of India, Calcutta 1854.Pg.76.

[165]Memoir of The Late David Scott, Esq., Agent To the Governor General, On The North East Frontier of Bengal, And Commissioner Of Revenue And Circuit In Assam, by Archibald Watson, Baptist Mission Press, Calcutta, 1832 (sold by T.Ostell, British Library).University of California. Pg.43.

[166]Ibid.Pg.45.

[167]Ibid.Pg.46.

[168]Ibid.Pg.47.

[169]Posthumous Papers bequeathed to the Honorable East India Company, and printed by order of the Government of Bengal. Journal Of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bootan, Affghanistan and The neighbouring Countries. By the Late William Griffiths. Bishop’s College Press, Calcutta, 1847. University of California at Berkeley.Pg.11.

[170]Memories of seven campaigns, a record of thirty five years’ service in the Indian Medical Department in India, China, Egypt, and the Sudan, By James Howard Thornton, Deputy Surgeon-General Indian Medical Service (Retired) Late Principal Medical Officer, Punjab Frontier Force. Published by Archibald Constable and Co., Westminster, 1895. Boston University.Pg.136.

[171]Sport in British Burmah, Assam, and the Cassyah and Jyntiah hills. with notes of sport in the hilly districts of the northern division, Madras Presidency, indicating the best localities in those countries for sport, with natural history notes, illustrations of the people, scenery, and game, together with maps to guide the traveller or sportsman, and hints on weapons, fishing-tackle, etc., best suited for killing game met with in those provinces. Volume 2. Lieutenant Colonel Fitz William Thomas Pollock, Chapman and Hall, London, 1879. Harvard University.Pg.29.

[172]The Calcutta Review, Vol. Xxvii, July-December 1856, Stanford University. Seramore and W.H. Allen and Co., London. The Geological Structure of part of the Khasia Hills, with Observations on the Meteorology and Ethnology of that District (observations made in the Khasi Hills in 1851 and 1852). By Thomas Oldham, Superintendent of the Geological Survey of India, Calcutta 1854.Pg.76.

[173]Ibid.

[174]Memories of seven campaigns, a record of thirty five years’ service in the Indian Medical Department in India, China, Egypt, and the Sudan, By James Howard Thornton, Deputy Surgeon-General Indian Medical Service (Retired) Late Principal Medical Officer, Punjab Frontier Force. Published by Archibald Constable and Co., Westminster, 1895. Boston University.Pg.136.

[175]Sport in British Burmah, Assam, and the Cassyah and Jyntiah hills. with notes of sport in the hilly districts of the northern division, Madras Presidency, indicating the best localities in those countries for sport, with natural history notes, illustrations of the people, scenery, and game, together with maps to guide the traveller or sportsman, and hints on weapons, fishing-tackle, etc., best suited for killing game met with in those provinces. Volume 2. Lieutenant Colonel Fitz William Thomas Pollock, Chapman and Hall, London, 1879. Harvard University.Pg.29.

[176]Posthumous Papers bequeathed to the Honorable East India Company, and printed by order of the Government of Bengal. Journal Of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bootan, Affghanistan and The neighbouring Countries. By the Late William Griffiths. Bishop’s College Press, Calcutta, 1847. University of California at Berkeley.Pg.11.

[177]Memories of seven campaigns, a record of thirty five years’ service in the Indian Medical Department in India, China, Egypt, and the Sudan, By James Howard Thornton, Deputy Surgeon-General Indian Medical Service (Retired) Late Principal Medical Officer, Punjab Frontier Force. Published by Archibald Constable and Co., Westminster, 1895. Boston University.Pg.136.

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