ABSTRACT
The seventh chapter investigates the extension of the Chin Hills Regulation of 1896 to the Somra Tract in 1917 and also to other adjoining areas. By this means the British slowly absorbed the Northern Arakan Hill Tracts in 1928 and the Pakokku Hill Tract in 1930 which finally created the Chin Hill District. But the system of administration was not uniform in the Chin Hills. A large part of directly administered strip of territory outside it was brought under what was called ‘loose political control’ and there were, in addition, pockets of unadministered tracts beyond these. The entire Chin Hills was declared a ‘backward tract’ under the Government of India Act 1919 and ‘scheduled’ or ‘excluded areas’ by the Act of 1935 outside the control of Ministerial Burma.
