Topography of Assam [Hardcover]

Name : Topography of Assam [Hardcover]

Author : John McCosh

Book Format : Hardcover

Genre : Reference

ISBN : 9788121264419

Language : English

Pages : 101-200 Pages

Publish Year : 2022

Publisher : Gyan Publishing House

About The Book : Boundaries, Aquatic habits; Route to Bengal by water. Route to Burma and China via Hookoong. Cause of Decline, Disqualifications for Throne, People, Women, Native Christians, Burmese, Agriculture, Animals, Gold. Silver, Iron, Coal, Lime, Arts. Trade, Seasons, Storms, Rains, Inundation, Extent of Assam, Divisions, Salubrity, Malaria, Properties of, Sources of —-Marshes, Revenue, Judicial and Police, Feudal system, Hill Tribes of Assam, Booteas, Akas, Duphlas, and Koffachors, Abors, Bor-Abors, and Mishmis, Kangtis. Bor-Kangtis, Singphos, Muamarias OR Mattucks, Nagas, Munnipore, Cacharis, Kassyas, Garrows. About The Author : John McCosh or John MacCosh or James McCosh (Kirkmichael, Ayrshire, (1805 –1885) was a Scottish army surgeon who made documentary photographs whilst serving in India and Burma. His photographs during the Second Anglo-Sikh War (1848–1849) of people and places associated with the British rule in India (for which he is best known), and of the Second Burmese War (1852–1853), count as sufficient grounds, some historians maintain, to recognise him as the first war photographer known by name. McCosh wrote a number of books on medicine and photography, as well as books of poetry. Roddy Simpson has written of McCosh's photographs that "Given the circumstances, these images are a considerable achievement and, regardless of artistic merit, are historical

Country of Origin : India