MIKIRS  , a See also:

• HILL
• HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
• HILL, A
• HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
• HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
• HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
• HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
• HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
• HILL, JAMES J
• HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
• HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
• HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
• HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
• HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)

hill tribe of See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India, occupying two or three detached tracts in See also:

• NOWGONG

Nowgong and See also:

• SIBSAGAR

Sibsagar districts of Eastern See also:

• BENGAL
• BENGAL, BAY OF

Bengal and See also:

• ASSAM

Assam, known as the Mikir hills . In 1901 their See also:

• TOTAL

total number was returned as 87,o56 . Mikir is the name given to them by the See also:

• ASSAMESE

Assamese; they See also:

• CALL (from Anglo-Saxon ceallian, a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch kallen, to talk or chatter)

call themselves Arleeng, which means " See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man " in See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general . They have See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long settled down to See also:

• AGRICULTURE
• AGRICULTURE (from Lat. ages, field, and colere, to cultivate)
• AGRICULTURE, BOARD OF

agriculture, and are distinguished from the tribes around them by the See also:

• ABSENCE (Lat. absentia)

absence of savagery . Their See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language, which has been studied by missionaries, seems to connect them with .the Kuki-See also:

• CHIN

Chin stock on the Burmese frontier . See See also:

• SIR

Sir C . See also:

• LYALL
• LYALL, EDNA

Lyall, The Mikirs (1908) .