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This article examines the colonial officials known as Bor/bura saheps or sutu saheps who were deployed in the North-East Frontier region of India during the 19th century. It explores their crucial role beyond just being administrators and military commanders by looking at their encounters with local languages, scripts, and texts, as well as their linguistic projects in Manipur. While the region was described as inhabited by
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