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