Lushais

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 745

Lushais, a warlike race occupying the little-known Lushai Hills in Cachar (Assam), Chittagong (Bengal), and the adjoining parts of Burma. To check their raids on British territory, expeditions have been required—in 1871–72, and again in 1889–90. Their country is now British.

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