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The Eastern Frontier of British India

1934

PREFACE The declaration of war by Japan against the British Empire and the United States of America in December 1941 the conquest of Burma and the threat to India from the east have painfully demonstrated the great iportance which should be attached to the eastern frontier of this country from the politicmilitary point of view. [...] The repeated incursions of the Bhutanese in Cooch Behar' towards the middle of the eighteenth century compelled that state to acknowledge the suzerainty of the Company in 1772. [...] The form of government" as Captain Welsh said in a report' submitted to the Government of Bengal in 1794 "was monarchical and aristocratical." The monarchy" was the monopoly of the descendants of Sukapha (1228-1268) the original Ahom coqueror of the province. [...] The Bar Barua received the revenues of and administered jutice in those portions of the upper provinces from Sadiya to Koliabar which lay outside the jurisdiction of the Gohains and was also usually the commander of the forces.' He was not competent to pass the sentence of death on any criminal. [...] The most formidable enemy of the King of Assam was however the Moamaria force of the existence of which the British authorities seem to have been altogether ignorant until the arrival of the expedition at Gauhati.
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Pages
437
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.143039
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Preface
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Chapter I Captain Welsh in Assam (1792-1794)
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Chapter II Disputes on the Arakan Frontier (1785-1795)
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Chapter III Commercial Missions to Burma (1795-1798)
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Chapter IV Lord Wellesley and Burma
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Chapter V The Question of Arakan Refugees (1807-I822)
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Chapter VI Troubles in Assam (1795-1824)
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Chapter VII Lord Amherst and the Final Rupture With Burma (1823-1824)
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Chapter VIII The First Anglo-Burmese War (824-1826)
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Chapter IX The Anglo-Burmese Treaties of I826
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Appendices
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Bibliography
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Index
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By the Same Author Peshwa Madhav Rao I
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