Tirap, Arunachal Pradesh, India
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A-1: Nata'he'ma He'ra'ng Kabanva' Nya'pra'ng
Type: Romanized Nocte language;
Original book: Worcester's Primer;
Translated by: Ruth M. Bronson;
Published in: 1840;
Printed by: American Baptist Mission Press, Jeypore, Assam;
Page: 56.
A-2: Diary of Miles Bronson
Type: Personal Diary;
Author: Miles Bronson;
Period: December 23, 1839 - November, 1840;
Published in: February, 1841;
Publisher: The Baptist Missionary Magazine (Vol. XXI);
Page: 27.
A-3: Diary of Ruth M. Bronson
Type: Personal Diary;
Author: Ruth M. Bronson;
Period: March 22, 1840 - October, 1840;
Published in: November, 1841;
Publisher: The Baptist Missionary Magazine (Vol. XXI);
Page: 07.
A-4: Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal
Type: Romanized Nocte grammar;
Author: William Robinson;
Published in: 1849;
Printed by: J. Thomas of Baptist Mission Press;
Page: 26.
A-5: Report of the Administration of the province of assam
Keyword: Namsang, Woodthorpe, and Hukanjuri;
Page: 05;
Printed by: Assam Secretariat Press;
Printed in: 1877.
A-6: Journal of Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Keyword: Borduaria, Paniduaria, Namsangia, Jaipuria and Mohongia;
Volume: New Series 12;
Printed by: Trubner and Company;
Page: 07;
Published: 1880.
A-7: Journal of the anthropological institute of great britain and ireland
Keyword: Borduaria and Namsangia;
Volume: 11;
Printed by: Trubner and Company;
Page: 11;
Published: 1882.
A-8: appeal by namsang chief to the british
Description: On August 29, 1884, Wang Bang, Chief of Namsangia Noctes, made an appeal to the then Government of British India to provide protection against the Borduaria Noctes. The appeal was granted on November 15, 1884;
Copyright/Source: Abhilekh Patal portal of National Archives of India;
Retrieved by: Dr. Taamwang Lowang on February 15, 2021;
Discovered and edited by: Shri Wangtum Humchha Lowang;
Page (Edited Version): 13;
Page (Original): 7.
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A-9: The Noctes
Type: All about the Nocte tribe;
Author: Dr. Parul Chandra Dutta;
Published in: 1978
Publisher: M.P. Hazarika, DIPR, Govt. of Arunachal Pradesh, Shillong;
Page: 377;
Printed by: Navana Printing Works Private Limited, Calcutta.
A-10: Tirap gazetteer
Type: About Tirap district and its tribes;
Edited by: S. Dutta Choudhury;
Published in: 1980;
Publisher: R.N. Bagchi, DIPR, Govt. of Arunachal Pradesh, Shillong;
Page: 243;
Printed by: N.K. Gossain and Co. Private Ltd.
A-11: Nocte Love songs
Type: Collection of romantic songs;
Author: Tapan Kumar M. Baruah;
Published in: 1987;
Publisher: Dr. Parul Chandra Dutta;
Page: 40;
Printed by: Saraighat Printers, Guwahati.
A-12: Tribes of Ind0-Burma Border
Type: History and culture of Nocte and other tribes;
Author: Surendra Nath Barua;
Published in: 1991;
Published by: Mittal Publications, New Delhi;
Printed in: J.N. Printers, Delhi;
Page: 411.
B-13: The Noctes in Brief
Type: About the Nocte tribe:
Author: Wangpha Lowang;
Published in: March, 2006;
Publisher: Namsang Borduria Fund, Khonsa, Tirap;
Page: 73;
Printed by: R.K. Print, Itanagar.
B-14: My Story
Type: Autobiography and cultural history of the Nocte tribe:
Author: Wangpha Lowang;
Written in: 2012;
Published in: June, 2020;
Publisher: Nocte Digest;
Page: 32.
B-15: The Tirap
Topics: Tirap district, Nocte, Wancho, Tangsa and environment;
Editor: Denhang Bosai;
Publisher: Namsang Borduria Fund and Tirap District Administration;
Published on: June 8, 2013;
Printed at: Designer Graphics, Dibrugarh, Assam;
Pages: 65.
b-16: Old friends' Parade
Type: Collection of 29 poems written over a period of seven years;
Author: Gankhu Sumnyan;
Published in: 2015;
Publisher: Writers' Workshop India;
Page: 44;
Purchase Hard-copy: https://writersworkshopindia.com/books/poetry/redbird/old-friends-parade
Copyright: The book has been made available in the PDF version with the permission of the author. All rights for any format of the book, including PDF, remain solely with the author. No part of the work may be used without the permission of the author.
b-17: culture of nocte tribe with special reference to festival, marriage and name-giving ceremony
Author: Dr. Watsen Bangsia Yekar
Page: 48
Published in: 2019
C-1: Society and Economy in North-East India : Volume II
Author: Mignonette Momin, Cecile A. Mawlong and Fuzail Ahamd Qadri;
Published in: 2006
Published by: Department of History, NEHU Shillong;
Topic: Medieval taxation systems of the Nocte and Tutsa tribes.
C-2: A Study on the Salt Production of Ancient Assam
Author: Ratkim Ranjan Saikia and Nurul Amin;
Published in: December 2019
Published by: Department of Geology, JB College, Jorhat, Assam;
Page: 12;
Topic: Salt-making processes and trade of the medieval Nocte tribe.
C-3: Industries and Tribal Social Ecology
C-4: North-East Frontier Agency Tribes
Author: P.N. Luthra;
Published in: June 1971;
Published by: Economic and Political Weekly;
Topic: Relation of the Ahom and the British rulers with the frontier tribes, namely Nocte, Wancho, Tangsa, other Naga tribes, Mishmi, Khamptis etc.
C-5: North East India : The Horizon of Anthropology
Author: Dr. K.C. Mahanta;
Published in: 2008;
Published by: Kalpaz Publications, Delhi;
Article page: 30;
Topic: Vaishnavism among the Nocte tribe.
C-6: Indian History Congress : Volume 33
Author: S.K. Barpujari;
Published in: 1971;
Topic: Miles Bronson and his family with the Nocte tribe in 1839 and 1840.
C-7: Tungkhungia Buranji (1681 - 1826 AD)
Compiled, edited and translated by: Professor S.K. Bhuyan;
Published in: 1933;
Published by: Oxford University Press;
C-8: Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal
Author: Edward Tuite Dalton;
Published in: 1872;
Type: The book consist of details and photographs of almost all the Northeast Indian tribes. Here, the Nocte tribe is mentioned as Namsangya Naga, Borduaria Naga etc.;
Page: 300.
C-9: Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States
Edited by: George Thomas Kurian and Mark A. Lamport;
Printed in: 2016;
Topic: Miles Bronson.
C-10: Encyclopedia of North-East India : Volume III
Author: Colonel Ved Prakash;
Published in; November 2006;
Extract page: 20.
C-12: Encyclopedic Ethnography of the Himalayan Tribes Volume I (A-D)
Editors: N.S. Bisht and T.S. Bankoti.
Publisher: Global Vision Publishing House
First Edition (2004)
Topics:
1. Origin of the Nocte tribe;
2. Socio-Political-Economic life;
3. Rituals, kinship, marriage, burials etc.
D-13: Religious history of arunachal Pradesh
Compiled by: Dr. B. Tripathy and Prof. S. Dutta.
Chapter: Religious History of the Noctes
Chapter Author: Ajay Kr. Mishra
Publisher: Gyan Publishing House (2008)
Pages: 26
D-14: The Nagas and westernization in northeast india
Author: Tezenlo Thong
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Published on: 2016
Chapter: Proselytization and Raising the Savage to a Higher Level
Pages: 20
Topic: Mission of Baptist missionary Miles Bronson.
D-15: HISTORY OF NORTH EAST INDIA
Compiled by: Rajiv Gandhi University, Doimukh
Publisher: Vikas Publishing House Pvt. Ltd.
Published on: 2016
Pages: 150
D-16: Baptist Missionary Magazine : Vol. xxi
Publisher: Board of Managers of the Baptist General Convention
Published on: 1841
Printed by: Press of John Putnam
Pages: 731
Topic: Miles Bronson
D-17: History of Medieval Assam (1228 -1603)
Publisher: School of African and Oriental Studies, London
Published on: 1957
Author: Nagendra Nath Acharya
Pages: 293
Topic: Nocte-Ahom Relations
Re-published by: ProQuest (2017)
f-17: GRAMMATICAL DESCRIPTION OF HAWA NOCTE
Type: Grammatical description of Hawa Nocte language;
Author: Syed Iftiqar Rahman;
Published in: November; 2016;
Place of work: Payap University, Thailand;
Page: 140.
Juruh Festival
Juruh is a community fishing event observed by the Nocte tribe. It is done in the month of April. Concoction paste extracted from tree barks function as a temporary hypnosis agent resulting in bounty fish harvest, mostly fishing nets are employed by the villagers.