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Mrs. N. E. Parry

Microfilm No. 40

TS memoir: ‘People and places in Assam’, by Kapi.

A memoir by the wife of N.E. Parry, I.C.S. who was District Officer in Assam in the 1920s and wrote the monograph The Lakhers (1932). Depicts the life of a D.O.’s wife moving from place to place in primitive conditions in the hill country, and describes the people, places, customs, flora and fauna. There is a glossary of Latin botanical names of flowers, birds, animals and reptiles found in the Garo and Lushai hills.