A DRAFT MAP OF KUKI COUNTRY By: Mark Haokip / Hills Today Magazine The territory inhibited by the Kuki Tribes extend from the Naga Hills in the north down into the Sandoway district of Burma in the south; from Myittha River in the east, almost to the Bay of Bengal in the west. It is almost entirely fill up by hills and mountains. The elevation of the highest point increases towards the east, from about 3000 feet in Garo Hills to 8000 and 9000 feet in the region of Manipur. This chain merges, in the east, into the spurs, which the Himalayas shoot out from the north of Assam towards the south. From here a great mass of mounbtain ridges starts south wards, enclosing the alluvial valley of Manipur, and thence spreads out westwards to the south of Sylhet. It then runs almost due north and south, with cross-ridges of smaller alleviation, throught the districts known as the Chin hills, the Lushei Hills, Hill tereperah, and the Chittagong Hill Tracts. Farther south the mountaneous region continues, through the Arakan Hill Tracts, and the Arakan Yoma, untill it finally sinks into the sea at Cape Negraise, the total length of the range being some seven hundred miles. The greatest elevation is found to the north of Manipur. Thence it gradually diminishes towards the south. Where the ridge enters the north of Arakan it again rises, with summit upwards of 8000 feet high, and here a mass of spurs is thrown off in all directions. Towards the south the western offshoots diminish in lenght, leaving a track of alluvial land between them and the sea, while in the north the eastern off-shoots of the Arakan Yoma run down to the bank of the Irrawaddy. This vast mountaineous region, from the Jantia and Naga Hills in the north is the home of the Kuki Tribes. We find them, besides, in small settlements, in the Cachar Plains and Sylhet. This book was written by George Abraham Gierson, Superintendent of Linguishtics survey of India in 1904. The portion of Kuki Country is found in Linguistic survey of India Volum 111, Pt. 111.
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