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| Title: | A Sketch of Assam: With Some Account of the Hill Tribes | |
| Author: | John Butler | |
| Language: | English | |
| Original publisher: | Smith, Elder and Co. | |
| Original publication place: | London | |
| Original publication date: | 1847 | |
| Keywords: | Assam | |
| Assam (India) | ||
| Ethnology | ||
| India | ||
| Social life and customs |