Lushai

Residents of the Lushai Hills of Mizoram saw the animal roaming about in a forest, which was later confirmed by conservationists. posted by Chad Arment @ 7: 17 PM

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The Lushai dandy for this sort of warfare is much preferable to the carpet or dhurrie dandy, as it can be made into a bed, and men are not so liable to fall out of it.

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

This was the Lushai mode of warning us what would be our fate if we ventured further.

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

The _khidmatgar_ died soon after the Mutiny, but two of his brothers were afterwards in my service; one, who was with me during the Lushai expedition and the whole of the Afghan war, never left me for more than twenty years, and we parted with mutual regret at Bombay on board the P. and O. steamer in which I took my final departure from India in April, 1893.

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

It was a proud, albeit a most anxious, moment for me when I assumed command of the Kuram Field Force; though a local Major-General, I was only a Major in my regiment, and save for a short experience on one occasion in Lushai, I had never had an opportunity of commanding troops in the field.

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

He seemed interested in what I had to tell him about Lushai, and Lord Napier of Magd [= a] la spoke in laudatory terms of the manner in which the expedition had been carried out.

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

Lushai friends, numbers of whom accompanied us to get possession of the empty tins, bags, and casks which were got rid of at every stage.

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

We were shown his tomb, which, like that of all great Lushai braves, was decorated with the heads of human beings (his slaves in paradise) and those of animals, besides drinking-vessels and various kinds of utensils for his use in another life.

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

"There's Gardner guns fer the inimy an 'Lushai dandies fer us," broke in

Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Volume 4 Gilbert Parker 1897