Documents and Articles on the North-East Frontier Agency
Basic Problems of NEFA – A Note from Nehru (1955)
During my brief visit to Shillong I have had the opportunity to discuss some of the problems of the North East Frontier Agency with the Governor and others here. I am not referring to the little trouble we are having in the Tuensang Division, but rather to the basic problems we have in these tribal areas and our general approach to them. Broadly speaking, we have indicated our approach in the past and I believe that, on the whole, this is being followed. And, yet, new problems arise from day to day and we have to be wide awake so as to learn from experience and adapt ourselves to the experience gained by our work…
History Arunachal
by Robert Reid
These notes, which have been compiled in my spare time as Governor of Assam, from 1937 to 1942 are an attempt to bring that invaluable work of reference, Sir Alexander Mackenzie’s “History of the Relations of the Government with the Hill Tribes of the North-East Frontier of Bengal” up to date so far as it touches on the frontier districts of Assam, i.e., taking them from south, by east, round to the north, The Lushai Hills; Manipur State; The Naga Hills; Sadiya Frontier Tract; Balipara Frontier Tract
2003
North and North-Eastern Frontier Tribes Frontier and Overseas Expeditions
Compiled in the Intelligence Branch Division of the Chief of the Staff, Army Head Quarters, India
Vol. IV
1907
Being an account of the Abor Expedition the Mishmi Mission and the Miri Mission
by Angus Hamilton
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
with Illustrations and a Map
London Eveleigh Nash
1912
Kingdon-Ward Journey
by Across Southern Tibet
April 1, 1936
The Sources of the Subansiri and Siyom
by F. Ludlow and Sheriff
April 1, 1938
Takpo and Kongbo, S.E. Tibet
by F. Ludlow
1940
Kingdon Ward
In the Land of the Blue Poppy
The Seed is Planted
1958
China-Burma Border
International Boundary Study
Office of the Geographer
Bureau of Intelligence and Research
No. 42 –
November 30, 1964
Bailey: an Obituary
Lt Col. Frederick Marshman Bailey, C.I.E., 1882-1967
1967
The exploration of the Eastern Himalaya and the River Gorge country of South Eastern Tibet|
by Kingdon-Ward
An introduction to a bibliography reprinted from Geological Research, Vol. 3, 1915
1974
Ludlow and Sheriff in Bhutan
Ludlow-Sherriff Expeditions to Bhutan and South-Eastern Tibet of 1933 -1950
by William T. Stearn
1975
Ludlow Expedition in Tibet Natural Museum
Bulletin of the British Museum
(Natural History)
Botany Vol. 5 1973-1977
London
1979
The Eastern Himalaya
An Introduction
by Michael Ward
1985
Apa Tanang Oral history among the Apatanis of Arunachal Pradesh
This essay is a revised version of an article that appeared in The Indian Economic and Social History Review,
40. 3 (2003)
Colonial contact in the ‘hidden land’: Oral history among the Apatanis of Arunachal Pradesh
2003
A Trek in Tawang Tract
by Harish Kapadia
Western Arunachal Pradesh, the Eastern Himalaya
2004
Representing Local Histories in the Himalayas
European Bulletin of Himalayan Research
Articles edited by Martin Gaenszle
2004
The Promised Land
by Harish Kapadia
An exciting trip to the Dibang Valley, Arunachal Pradesh
2007
An essay on intra-subgroup convergence in Tibeto-Burman Siyom Valley
by Mark W. Post
Universität Bern
2009
Hidden Land of Pemako
Population History and Identity in the Hidden Land of Pemakö
by Kerstin Grothmann
2009
Institutional Diversity and Capitalist Transformation in Rural Arunachal Pradesh
Working Paper Number 179
by Barbara Harriss-White, Deepak K Mishra and Vandana Upadhyay
2009
Articles by TS Murty
Tawang and ‘The Un-Negotiated Dispute’
by TS Murty
in the China Quarterly
1971
The Eastern Himalayas in Sino-Indian Relations
by TS Murthy
Books on Sikkim
Visit to Siccim (Sikkim) Hills proposed as Sanatorium
by JD Herbert
from Royal Geographical Society
1830
Mountain Tribes on N E Frontier of Bengal
by J. McCosh
from Journal of the Asiatic Society
1836
Note on Lepchas of Sikkim
by A. Campbell
from Journal of the Asiatic Society
1840
Literature and Origin of Hill Tribes in Sikkim
by A. Campbell
from Journal of the Asiatic Society
1842
Glaciers of Kanchunjingah Group in Sikkim Himalaya
by Maj James Sherwill
from Journal of the Asiatic Society
1863
Tribes of the Eastern Frontier
by JH O’Donel
from Journal of the Asiatic Society
1864
Hill-tribes of Northern Frontier of Assam
by Rv CH Hesselmeyer
from Journal of the Asiatic Society
1868
Visit to Eastern and Northern Frontiers of Independent Sikkim
by WT Blanford
from Journal of the Asiatic Society
1871
Lake Region of Sikkim on Frontier of Tibet
by Sir Richard Temple
from Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society
1881
Exploration in Sikkim NE of Kanchinjinga
by Claude White
from the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society
1892
Report on Botanical Tour in Sikkim
by GA Gammie
Records of the Botanical Survey Of India
Published under the Direction of Brigade-Surgeon Q. King
Director of the Botanical Survey of India
1894
Report of Mission to Sikkim and the Tibetan Frontier with memorandum
by Colman Macaulay
‘Memorandum of our relations with Tibet’
1895
Younghusband Naku
from India and Tibet
by Francis Younghusband
1905
Western Tibet and the British Borderland
The Sacred Country of Hindus and Buddhists
With an Account of the Government, Religion and Customs of its Peoples
by Charles Sherring
1906
Sikhim & Bhutan
Twenty-one years on the North-East Frontier 1887-1908
by Claude White
New York: Longmans, Green & Co.
London: Edward Arnold
1909
From the National Archives of India
Erection of Pillars Foreign Department Notes
Foreign Department Notes.
Secret-E., May 1906.
Nos. 854-856.
Proposal to Erect Boundary Pillars on The Sikkim-Tibet
Frontier in the Neighbourhood of Giaogong
from National Archives of India
1906
Erections of pillars
Foreign Department Notes.
Secret-E., August 1905.
Nos. 81-83.
Question of The Erection Of Boundary Pillars Between Sikkim and Tibet, and of the Grazing Rights which were claimed by the Tibetans
from National Archives Of India
1905
Boundary Bhutan-Sikkim
From CA Bell, Political Officer in Sikkim,
To The Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department
Gangtok, The 21st May, 1913.
“I have the honour to refer to the correspondence resting with my letter No. 300/E., dated the 26th February 1912, regarding a boundary dispute between Bhutan and Sikkim in connection with a tract of land near Gipmochi.”
[About an area south of Gipmochi]
from National Archives of India
1913
Sikkim-Bhutan boundary
Sub: Rectification of Sikkim-Bhutan boundary
From: Surveyor General of India
Requests that the boundary in question be marked on the proof forwarded
[About an area south of Gipmochi]
from National Archives Of India
1917
Gipmochi Bhutan-Sikkim dispute
From CA Bell, Political Officer in Sikkim,
Please refer to your demi-official letter No. 758/F, dated the 7th July 1917, regarding the realignment of the Sikkim Bhutan boundary south of Gipmochi
[About an area south of Gipmochi]
from National Archives Of India
1918
Other Papers
Trip into Chumbi Valley Tibet
by Lt Col Sir Walter Buchanan,
from Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society
1919
Exploration in South-East Tibet
by Maj HT Morshead
from Royal Engineers Institute
1921
Riddle of the Tsangpo Gorges
by Capt F. Kingdon-Ward
Author of ‘From China to Hkamti Long,’ ‘The
Romance of Plant Hunting,’ etc.
Edward Arnold & Co
London
1926
A Plant Hunter in Tibet
by Kingdon-Ward
Jonathan Cape
London
1934
Capt Lightfoot
Indo-Tibetan Frontier Expedition to Tawang, Assam, to Examine Local Conditions in Order to Make Suggestions for Future Administration of that Area
External Affairs Department
from National Archives of India
1938
Takpo and Kongbo SE Tibet
by F. Ludlow
1940
Through Western Tibet in 1939
by Capt Robert Hamond
Royal Norfolk Regiment Meeting of the Society,
1941, December
China Tibet Assam
A Journey, 1911
by Lt Col FM Bailey
Gold Medallist of the Royal Geograplzical Society
Livingston Gold Medallist of the Royal Scottish
Geographical Society
1945
Occupation of Towang – Reports from the Assistant Political Officer, Towang
by Maj Bob Khathing
North-East Frontier Agency
1951
The Hidden Land
The Hidden Land, Mission to a Far Corner of India
by Ursula Graham Bower
1953
No Passport to Tibet
by Lt Col FM Bailey
1957
Reports and Tour Diary
Undertakne in the upper Subansiri Area and the Tsari chu Valley
by Capt LR Sailo
Source: National Archives of India
1957
Across the Golden Heights of Assam and NEFA
by Baveja
Dedicated to the Happy Tribal People of Assam & NEFA
Modern Book Depot Calcutta
1960
Note given by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Peking, to the Embassy of India in China
White Paper No 12
18 January, 1965
Annual Report from Gangtok
by NB Menon
Political Officer in Sikkim
Source: National Archives of India
1967
Francis Kingdon Ward Annotated Bibliography
by Ulrich Schweinfurth
Exploration in the Eastern Himalayas and the River Gorge Country of Southeastern Tibet
By Francis (Frank) Kingdon Ward (1885-1958)
Franz Steiner Verlag Gmbh Wiesbaden
1975
Tawang
Case Study of British Frontier Policy in Himalayas
by Lars-Erik Nyman
from Journal of Asian History
1976
Establishment of British Trade Agencies in Tibet
A Survey
by AC McKay
1992
East-Kameng, West-Kameng and Tawang
Arunachal Pradesh District Gazetteers
by S. Dutta Choudhury
1996
Migration
Narratives Official Classifications
The Memba of the Hidden Land of Pachakshiri
2007
Integratig Tawang
by Sonia Shukla
With the departure of the British from South Asia in 1947, the transition of the NEFA (North East Frontier Agency)
2012
The Life and Activities of Rgyal sras Blo bzang bstan, a 16th century Tibeto-Mon Monk from Tawang
by Lobsang Tenpa
The Tibet Journal
Vol. XXXVIII,
No. 3 & 4, Autum-Winter 2013
2013
The Centenary of the McMahon Line and the Status of Monyul in
1951-52
The Tibet Journal
Autumn/Winter, Vol. XXXIX, No.2 2014
2014
Peripheral Elites
The Illuminating Mirror
by Lobsang Tempa
Tibetan Studies in Honour of Per K. Sorensen on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday
2015
Mon and Sherdukpen Treaties with British India 19th century
by Lobsang Tempa
2016
Tibeto-Mon Treaty with British India
by Lobsang Tempa
The Tibet Journal
2016
India-China Border Dispute Boundary
Making and Shaping of Material Realities
from the Mid-Nineteenth to Mid-Twentieth Century.
2017
Nias Focusing the Frontiers
the Borderland, Identity, Perceptions and Imaginings of Monpas of Tawang in India-China Border
2017
Tawang Embattled Frontiers and Emerging Spaces
Transformation of the Tawang Border
2017
Frank Ludlow and the english school in Tibet1923-1926
Michael Rank
Michael Rank is a graduate in Chinese from Downing College, Cambridge University…
Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru
Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru – Volume 36
Extracts of the Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru related to NEFA
Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru – Volume 27
Extracts of the Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru related to NEFA
Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru – Volume 26
Extracts of the Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru related to NEFA
Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru – Volume 25
Extracts of the Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru related to NEFA
Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru – Volume 24
Extracts of the Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru related to NEFA
Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru – Volume 23
Extracts of the Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru related to NEFA
Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru – Volume 22
Extracts of the Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru related to NEFA
Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru – Volume 21
Extracts of the Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru related to NEFA
Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru – Volume 20
Extracts of the Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru related to NEFA
Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru – Volume 19
Extracts of the Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru related to NEFA
Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru – Volume 18
Extracts of the Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru related to NEFA