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(i) THIS is one of the excellent monographs on the wilder tribes of eastern India which were started by the Government of Eastern Bengal. It may be hoped that the recent changes in the provincial jurisdiction will not interfere with the completion of this project. The present volume is written by an officer who possesses the indispensable qualification of an intimate knowledge of the people. He gracefully dedicates it to Lieut. Col. T. H. Lewin, whose valuable works have been the standard authority on the people of this district. There is some difficulty about the nomenclature of these tribes, because the terms Kuki, Naga, Chin, Shendu, and many others are not recognised by the people to whom we apply them. Kuki, however, has come to possess a fairly definite meaning as applied to certain closely allied Clans, with well-marked characteristics, belonging to the Tibeto-Burman stock. The name Lushai, which we also use in a somewhat vague, ill-defined way, is an incorrect transliteration of Lushei, the name of a single clan. In this monograph Lushai is used in the wider sense, Lushei being restricted to the clan of that name.
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Anthropology in India and Malta 1 . Nature 90, 464–466 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/090464a0
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