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Excerpt from A Short Account of the Kuki-Lushai Tribes on the North-East Frontier (Districts Cachar, Sylhet, Nága Hills, Etc;, And the North Cachar Hills): With an Outline Grammar of the Rangkhol-Lushai Language and a Comparison of Lushai With Other Dialects
Researches undertaken on the Burmese side of the great watershed would greatly facilitate the classifying and group ing of tribes of whose history (except within comparatively recent years) we are entirely ignorant.
An almost boundless field for ethnological research exists on both the Burma and Assam frontiers, and it is to be hoped that each Government officer or private individual, whose Opportunities are such as to enable him to ascertain anything of the history, manners, or customs of any particular tribe, will endeavour to note at once the principal linguistic characteristics. By this means, in the course of a few years, tribes now more or less distinct will be traced back to the parent stock and satisfactorily classified.
The various Kuki laws treating on marriage, rights of succession, &c., will, the writer trusts, prove of value to officials in frontier districts, who are often called upon to decide cases in which the tribal customary procedure can be the only guide to a correct decision. In this short account, the writer has only attempted to note the principal manners and customs of the tribes. In the course of time, from contact with out siders, old manners and customs, and even the language, will slowly but surely change, and means by which connect ing links between tribes can be established will be lost for ever. It is while the customs handed down from father to son are still intact that a history, however brief, is of value.
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Researches undertaken on the Burmese side of the great watershed would greatly facilitate the classifying and group ing of tribes of whose history (except within comparatively recent years) we are entirely ignorant.
An almost boundless field for ethnological research exists on both the Burma and Assam frontiers, and it is to be hoped that each Government officer or private individual, whose Opportunities are such as to enable him to ascertain anything of the history, manners, or customs of any particular tribe, will endeavour to note at once the principal linguistic characteristics. By this means, in the course of a few years, tribes now more or less distinct will be traced back to the parent stock and satisfactorily classified.
The various Kuki laws treating on marriage, rights of succession, &c., will, the writer trusts, prove of value to officials in frontier districts, who are often called upon to decide cases in which the tribal customary procedure can be the only guide to a correct decision. In this short account, the writer has only attempted to note the principal manners and customs of the tribes. In the course of time, from contact with out siders, old manners and customs, and even the language, will slowly but surely change, and means by which connect ing links between tribes can be established will be lost for ever. It is while the customs handed down from father to son are still intact that a history, however brief, is of value.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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C. A. Soppitt
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ISBN - 9780265940501
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.6 cm
Page Count - 100
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C. A. Soppitt
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ISBN - 9781332909124
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Page Count - 102
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