Lushai Expedition (N E India 1871-2)

Indias north-west frontier was famously a source of trouble and strife to the rulers of British India. But as this book amply shows the north-eastern borders of the Raj was almost as turbulent. This is the account of a British punitive expedition against one particularly restless people the Lushai in 1871-2. The author Lieut R.G. Woodthorpe was a Royal Engineers officer engaged on surveying India when the expedition was mounted and he was invited to join. Woodthorpe gives a detailed description of the appearence customs and history of the Lushai before describing the expedition under General Bourchier itself. The book is a valuable account of the activities of a typical British Field Force so common in late Victorian times. Illustrated with two engravings and a map.