This book sheds light on a century old history of a hill-based polity in the borderland between the Indian states of Mizoram and Manipur with Burma (Myanmar). It traces the ruling Sukte lineage of the northern Chin Hills from pre-colonial through colonial eras, and narrates the fortuitous process of how a single-village chiefdom transformed into multi-village tributary Ukpi. This happened well before the advent of British overlords and their 'indirect rule'. The ...
