Cecil Champain Lowis

“ The first of these to be mentioned are the Welaung Chins in the north of the Pakokku Tract, who have in the past been regarded as, so to speak, a connecting link between the Chinboks and the Haka Chins of the Chin Hills proper. A punitive expedition sent in 1906 into the Welaung country showed, however, that its inhabitants were more probably connected with the tribes alluded to by Major Hughes as living to the east of the Northern Arakan District who are now known generally as Lemro Chins (Captain Rigby's M'hangs, Twisips, etc.) ”

“ Owing to various causes the Central Chins have never been systematically studied as a whole and, though ample information has been collected regarding some of them, not only are there others—for the most part in the unadministered tracts—of whom little is known, but also the relation the different tribes bear to one another has never been fully brought out. Roughly speaking, however, there are four main tribes of Central Chins, namely, the Chinboks, the Yindus, the Kara is and the Mros. ”

“ The Yindus occupy the country to the south of the Chinboks and extend into the hills to the west of the Pakokku Hill Tract proper. Their total in the last named tract in 1901 was 2,469, but a large number of Yindus who lived in an unadministered block of upland between the Pakokku Chin Hills and the Arakan Division escaped enumeration at the last census. Besides the Yindus proper there are a number of smaller tribes scattered through the Pakdkku Chin Hills and the Districts of Northern Arakan, Akyab and Kyaukpyu who may be lumped in the same general category with them. ”