ABSTRACT
The sixth chapter analyses colonial discussion and debate over the future civil and military administration of the Chin-Lushai Hills at the Chin-Lushai Conference at Fort Williams in 1892. It analyses the debate over the question of ‘amalgamation’ of the Chin-Lushai Hills, the newly acquired hill tracts which had been divided into three administrative units, and the reasons behind its failure. The boundary demarcation of Manipur and Chin Hills, as an immediate outcome of the failed Chin-Lushai Conference, has been critically examined. Also prominent in this chapter is the promulgation of the Chin Hills Regulation Act 1896 which laid the legal frameworks for the administration of the Chin Hills through ‘indirect rule’, the problem in the Pakokku Hills, and the response of the Chin/Zo to the call for Labour Corps during the First World War.
