Cachar District Records: Letters Subsequent to the Annexation of Cachar (In 2 Volumes)

This is indubitably a valuable collection of records of Cachar District which covers the period from April 1834 to June 1853 in Volume One and from 1853 to 1860 in Volume Two. The letters published in this volume delineate numerous detail concerning the modernization of Cachar where the British established a judicial system, developed police administration, introduced a modern revenue system system, and helped the growth of modern education. The remoteness of Cachar was removed, and the district attracted enterprising people from the neighbouring areas. The reader of this volume may also have a glimpse of a simmer of discontent which was attributable to disputes between people speaking different languages, defects in land-settlement, and the overbearing stance of the British bureaucrats and their native flunkeys.