The Karen People of Burma (Esprios Classics)

The Karen are a group of Indo-Chinese tribes living principally in Burma the easternmost province of the British Indian Empire in the Indo-Chinese peninsula and in the adjoining country of Siam to the east. They are found between the tenth and twenty-first degrees of north latitude and between the ninety-fourth and one hundredth degrees of east longitude. The greater part of this territory they occupy in connection with the other peoples of the country namely the Burmese Shan Siamese and Chin. The only exclusively Karen country is the hilly region of the Toungoo district and the Karenni subdivision where the Karen chiefs of five states comprising 4830 square miles and a population of 42240 are still in power under the Advisory Council of the British Government.