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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 mono- 

 graph Lushai is used in the wider sense, Lushei 

 being restricted to the clan of that name. 



Beginning with a complete bibliography of the 

 published literature, the book follows the order 

 prescribed for the other volumes of the series, 

 with chapters descriptive of the domestic life, laws 

 and customs, religion, folk-lore, and language of 

 the allied groups. It is provided with an excellent 

 colk'ction of photographs, some coloured, with a 

 map and good index. On the whole, the execution 



relations with these people are as unsatisfactory 

 as they were more than sixty years ago. 

 The only alleviation of this dangerous state of 

 things is that the country has formed a splendid 

 training ground for our troops, that it has devel- 

 oped the gallantry and resource of the British 

 subaltern, and that many of the tribesmen have 

 served with distinction in the armies of their 

 hereditary enemies. 



During the course of these expeditions and in 

 other ways, surveys have been made of the 

 borderland, and much Information, geographical, 

 statistical, and ethnological, has been collected. 

 But up to the present the Indian Government, with 

 its habitually excessive caution, has decided that 

 these materials should be considered confidential. 



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\.Mr.r. M Sahiwnil, 



is much to be commended, and the monograph 

 will not only be of service to district officers and 

 policemen, but will offer much information useful 

 to the anthropologist. 



(j) The north-west frontier of India and its 

 people furnish the most difficult of the many prob- 

 lems which the Anglo-Indian statesman and 

 soldier are compelled to solve. Since the annexa- 

 tion of the Punjab in 1849 these tribes have 

 displayed the most fanatical resistance to our 

 Government. Time after time punitive expedi- 

 tions have penetrated every part of the wild 

 country which lies between our territories and the 

 kingdom of the Amir of Kabul. Conciliation has 

 been tried without any success, and to-dav our 

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, table, and pillar. From " Malta and the Medi 



despite the fact that any foreign State interested 

 in the military problems of India must already, 

 by some underground means, have obtained the 

 necessary information. 



The present book, for the first time, provides a 

 rcsumi of some of this accumulated material. But 

 the Indian War Oflice insisted that the MS. siiould 

 be submitted to their scrutiny before public.ition. 

 It begins with a short introduction from the pen 

 of that fine soldier Sir H. Smith Dorrien, and 

 passes on to a general description of the border- 

 land, followed by a series of chapters dealing, 

 each in succession, with a group of tribes, begin- 

 ning with those of the Black Mountain and ending 

 with the ^^'azirs. For each tribe or group of 



