About the Book The book tells the readers about several tribes that inhabit the mountainous regions on the frontier of Burma... Accounts of these tribes are quite informative. The volume states that in Burma proper, there are several non- Burman tribes. It tells about the principal tribe of the region i.e. Talaing tribe, their origin, their language, etc. It includes the information about the waves of immigration into Burma, which has been extracted from the Burma Administration Report of 1901-1902, where it is abstracted from the report of the census taken in 1901. The volume further describes about Karens, the branches of their race, their religion, their superstitions related to spirit, their conversion to Christianity, the dress- code of women belonging to different branches, etc. It also includes an account of Shans and Kachins, their tribes, their dialects, their geographical locations, etc. It elaborates the struggles of the tribes, their conquests, and their raids as these were of constant occurrence.
About the Author Sir Frederick William Richards Fryer KCSI (1845-1922) served as Lieutenant Governor of the British Crown Colony of Burma from May 1897 to April 1903. Prior to that, he had served as Chief Commissioner of British (Lower) Burma. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Star of India (CSI) in 1890 and received a knighthood as Knight Commander of the same order (KCSI) in 1895. Sir Frederic Fryer is known to all as a distinguished administrator, whose early years of service were passed in Punjab, and who had been connected with the great province of Burma for more than twenty- one years. His first service in Burma dates from 1886. Regarding various stages of development from conquest to order and peace in Upper Burma and the way Sir Frederic Fryer had supervised them, it has been said of him that he had nursed so sturdy a child of an Empire from childhood to adolescence.
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