On the Edge of Empire: Four British Plans for North East India, 1941-1947

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This volume compiles four secret British plans conceived and discussed at the highest levels of administration for setting up a Crown Colony, comprising the hill areas of the North East India and the tribal areas of Burma, in the years before and shortly after Independence. Giving the geographical, administrative and colonial contexts of the four British plans, it traces the connection between the four plans of Sir Robert N. Reid, Governor of Assam, 1937-1942; his Secretary, James P. Mills; Sir Andrew G. Clow, Governor of Assam, 1942-1947; and Philip F. Adams who became Secretary to the Assam Governor after Mills.

Putting across the idea that the hill people of the region should be given special attention by the British Government, it puts in perspective the future of the hill tribes of the region in a self-governing India. The background of the administrative machinery and the political activity in the hills just before India’s independence also finds place in the discussion.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR David R. Syiemlieh

David R. Syiemlieh holds a doctorate in History from the North Eastern Hill University, where he is presently Professor and Head of the Department of History. Author of British Administration in Meghalaya: Policy and Pattern (1989); A Brief History of the Catholic Church in Nagaland (1990); They Dared to Hope: The Congregation of Holy Cross in India (1998) and Survey of History on North East India 1970-1990 (2000), he has edited several volumes of the North East India History Association Proceedings of which Association he was General Secretary for many yeaers. Prof. Syiemlieh has contributed articles in numerous journals and edited volumes. These relate largely to the history of the North East. He has been the recipient of several grants and fellowships - Charles Wallace Grant (1993); Briths Council Grant (1996); India-France Cultural Exchange Programme (1997); and more recently a Fulbright Fellowship at Notre Dame University USA, 1999-2000.