Cachar

I had been a week in Cachar when the news came which put an end alike to all hope and all fear.

My Three Years in Manipur and Escape from the Recent Mutiny 1891

Champion and Seth recognize the following forest types in this ecoregion: Assam Valley semi-evergreen forest, Assam alluvial plains semi-evergreen forest, eastern submontane semi-evergreen forest, sub-Himalayan light alluvial semi-evergreen forest, eastern alluvial secondary semi-evergreen forest, sub-Himalayan secondary wet mixed forest, and Cachar semi-evergreen forest.

Brahmaputra Valley semi-evergreen forests 2007

Haflong is HQ for the North Cachar Hills district, and most of the buildings I pass seem to be either some form of goverment office or army billets.

Archive 2005-07-01 2005

Aizawl: Twenty-nine Indian Reserve Police constables who were undergoing training at the Counter Insurgeny and Jungle Warfare School at Lylapur in Assam's Cachar district have deserted for fear of being posted at Naxalite-hit Chhatisgarh.

Archive 2006-08-01 Abhay N 2006

Cachar, who accompanied the left column as civil officer.

Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

The despatch of a force was therefore decided upon; it was to consist of two small columns [1] -- one having its base at Cachar, the other at

Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

Cholera pursued us up to and beyond Cachar; the wretched coolies suffered most, and it is a disease to which Gurkhas are peculiarly susceptible, while a feast on a village pig from time to time probably helped to make matters worse for them.

Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

Lushai, situated between south-eastern Bengal and Burma, was a _terra incognita_ to me, and I had only heard of it in connexion with the raids made by its inhabitants upon the tea-gardens in its vicinity, which had now spread too far away from Cachar for the garrison of that small military station to afford them protection.

Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

The advance portion of the column did not arrive at Tipai Mukh, only eighty-four miles from Cachar, until the 9th December, which will give an idea of the enforced slowness of our progress.

Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

Raids became more frequent and more destructive; until at last a little European girl, named Mary Winchester, was carried off, and kept by them as a prisoner; on this the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal declared that a punitive expedition was 'absolutely necessary for the future security of the British subjects residing on the Cachar and

Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts