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A History of Mughal North-East Frontier Policy

1929

The author hints at the establishment of friendship between the Mughal Emperor Akbar and the Koch king Nara Narayan and gives the most detailed account of the division of the latter's kingdom which led to the origin of the Kamrup state. [...] From the north-west to the norteast the different offshoots of the Himalayas are named after the various hill-tribes inhabiting them e. g. the Bhutias Akas Dafias Abors Miris and Mishmis while beginning from the extreme south-west the mountain chains take the name of the Garos the Khasias and various branches of the Nagas. [...] The second division of the lands is what may be termed the diluvial plain of the valley its level being generally above the ordinary inundations of the Brahmaputra and of its tributaries." To the north of the great river plains of varying breadth stretch almost in an unbroken line throughout the whole valley except where they are partially interrupted by the alluvial beds of the hill-streams [...] In Mughal times it held the key to the province of Kamrup and was the site of an impregnable hill fort flanked by the Brahmaputra on the south and the Manas to the east and many a battle was fought over it between the Imperialists on the one side and the Koches and the Assamese on the other. [...] The first denotes the tract lying on the north bank of the river the second that lying on the south while the third is the large island in the middle formed by the fork of the Lohit and the Dihing.
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Frontmatter
i-vi Sudhindra Bhattach’aryya view
Introduction
i-xxiii Sudhindra Bhattach’aryya view
Chapter I. The North-East Frontier—the Land the People and Their Early History
1-51 Sudhindra Bhattach’aryya view
Chapter II. Pre-Mughal Muslim Relation with North-Eastern India
52-92 Sudhindra Bhattach’aryya view
Chapter III. Beginnings of Mughal North-East Frontier Policy
93-123 Sudhindra Bhattach’aryya view
Chapter IV. Second Phase of Mughal North-East Frontier Policy—Policy of Aggressive Imperialism
124-157 Sudhindra Bhattach’aryya view
Chapter V. Defensive and Constructive Mughal Policy in the North-East Frontier
158-250 Sudhindra Bhattach’aryya view
Chapter VI. Mughal North-East Frontier Policy in Its Full Bloom
251-296 Sudhindra Bhattach’aryya view
Chapter VII. Climacteric of Mughal North-East Frontier Policy—Imperialism at Its Acme and Its Sharp Decline
297-388 Sudhindra Bhattach’aryya view
Chapter VIII. Summary and Conclusions
389-396 Sudhindra Bhattach’aryya view
Appendices
397-414 Sudhindra Bhattach’aryya view
Index
415-433 Sudhindra Bhattach’aryya view
Backmatter
i-ii Sudhindra Bhattach’aryya view

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