Chin Hills
| Chin Hills | |
|---|---|
  Chin Hills Location in Myanmar | |
| Highest point | |
| Peak | Patkai Range |
The Chin Hills
Geography
The highest peak in the Chin Hills is
Falam
is the largest town in the Chin Hills, lying at their southern edge.
The Chin Hills are the eastern part of the Patkai Range, which includes the Lushai Hills and runs through Nagaland in India, as well as part of Burma. The Lushai Hills are frequently discussed with the Chin Hills as the topography, people's culture and history are similar. The southern prolongation of the Chin Hills is the Arakan Range (Arakan Yoma), stretching as well from north to south.
History
Historically the area of the range has been populated by the
Laimi people. In addition to subsistence agriculture the Chin raided the villages of the Burman on the plains of the Myittha and Chindwin rivers, as well as each other.[3] In 1888, the British began a military campaign to end these raids which resulted in pacification of the province by 1896,[3]
and it was administratively added to Burma as a special division.
In the
Second World War the hills formed a point of armed conflict between Japanese forces and a combined British and Indian force.[4]
See also
- Arakan Mountains
- Chin Hills-Arakan Yoma montane forests
Notes
- ^ "Chin Hills (Approved)" Chin Hills at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
- ^ "1:250,000 topographic map, Series U502, Imphal, India, NG 46-15" U.S. Army Map Service, April 1960; "1:250,000 topographic map, Series U542, Mawlaik, Burma; India, NF 46-3" U.S. Army Map Service, March 1960; and "1:250,000 topographic map, Series U542, Gangaw, Burma, NF 46-7" U.S. Army Map Service, April 1958
- ^ OCLC 1889867
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 August 2016. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
External links
- Burma - Geography
- Google Books, The Physical Geography of Southeast Asia
- . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 233.
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