A Sketch of Assam: With some account of the Hill Tribes

by Major John Butler

[The Sath Booteah Rajahs of Kooreahparah Dooar in Durrung]: the mountains where located—Kalling and Booree Goorma Dooars—Tyranny of the Booteahs towards the Dooars—Kalling Dooar annexed to Assam—Kooreahparah Dooar—Exactions of the Sath Rajahs—Advantages of British Government 191

[The Char Dooar, or Sheergawn and Rooprae Booteah Sath Rajahs]: names of the principal chiefs—Yearly amount of black mail levied by them—Murder of Moodhoo Sykeah 199

[The Thebingeah Booteahs]: quarrel between them and the Rooprae Booteahs of Char Dooar—At the present day not numerous, but peaceable and inoffensive—Sum allowed them by the British Government in lieu of black mail 202

[The Huzaree Khawa Akhas]: reside in the mountains north of Burgong—Formerly very powerful, but now acknowledge the supremacy of Taggee, a Kuppah Choor Akha Chief 204

[The Kuppah Choor Akhas]: always looked upon by their neighbours as a ferocious band of banditti—Depredations by Rajah Taggee—His incarceration by the British, and subsequent liberation—Resorts to his former lawless practices—Massacre of the Goorkha Sipahees—Taggee, in 1842, voluntarily surrenders to the British, who again liberate him on his swearing allegiance—He is pensioned with four other chiefs 206

[The Dufflahs]: divided into innumerable clans—Very uncivilized, and formerly very troublesome—In 1836–37, consent to forego their depredations on receiving a fixed sum from the British Government—List of Dufflah chiefs, and the amount of pension paid to them 212

General MAP OF ASSAM.

SCALE 16 MILES TO 1 INCH.