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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 437 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MIKIRS  , a

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hill tribe of
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India, occupying two or three detached tracts in
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Nowgong and
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Sibsagar districts of Eastern
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Bengal and
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Assam, known as the Mikir hills . In 1901 their
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total number was returned as 87,o56 . Mikir is the name given to them by the
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Assamese; they
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call themselves Arleeng, which means "
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man " in
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general . They have
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long settled down to
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agriculture, and are distinguished from the tribes around them by the
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absence of savagery . Their
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language, which has been studied by missionaries, seems to connect them with .the Kuki-
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Chin stock on the Burmese frontier . See
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Sir C .
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Lyall, The Mikirs (1908) .

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