History of Arunachal Pradesh

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History of Arunachal Pradesh in the revised and enlarged upto dated title British Policy in the North East Frontier Agency published in 1979. The book is a prescribed textbook in Degree Honours and P.G courses of Arunachal University and also in other Universities of North East India. The earlier title is no more available in the market and as such a new enlarged edition with change in the title is published now to suit the P.G. students of Arunachal University.

Prof. M.L. Bose has been teaching in the Dibrugarh University for about thirty years and has contributed more than thirty papers in Regional and National Seminars and Journals of Repute. An Aurobindite Prof. Bose has guided many research scholars to produce Ph.D. thesis. His earliers published works Historical and Constitutional Documents of North East India, 1979; British Policy in the North- East Frontier Agency, 1979; Development of Administration in Assam, 1985 Social History of Assam, 1989; Social and Cultural History of Ancient India, 1989; and History of Arunachal Pradesh were well received in the academic world.

This book attempts to draw, in seven Chapters, a connected history of the North-East Frontier which is now known as Arunachal Pradesh. In the first five Chapters, the period from annexation of Assam in 1826 to the end of British rule in 1947 in order to provide an understanding of the development of the North-East Frontier during the British period from a historical angle. Then in last two Chapters post-independence developments leading to the creation of the Arunchal Pradesh has been shown.

For the British period, the relevant proceedings of the revenue, judicial, police and political departments of the Government of Bengal between the years 1826-1874, and the Secret Consultations of that Government, in the West Bengal State Archives, Calcutta, as well as the Home, Public, Judicial,; Police, and Foreign Political proceedings of the Government of India, in the National Archives of India, New Delhi, for the same period were examined. (The history of this period has been laboriously written by Sir Alexander Mackenzie, who served under the Government of Bengal and the Government of India and had full access to all the official papers of those Governments. The book is well written, though with a purpose). Besides, the following have also been thoroughly studied: all the proceedings of the Chief Commissioner of: Assam between 1874-1905 in the Foreign Department of the Government of India; all the relevant proceedings of the, Government of Eastern Bengal and Assam in the Political Department between 1906-12; and all the proceedings of the, Government of Assam for 1913-20, 1921 and 1937 have also been consulted. Subsequent developments have been studied; from the proceedings of the Tribal Affairs Department of the Assam Governor's Secretariat.

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