Tamu

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This article has been extracted from THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.

Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts. Some units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.

Tamu

Township in the Upper Chindwin District of Upper Burma, lying between 23° 35' and 24° 20' N. and 94° 1’and 94° 33' E., with an area of 960 square miles. The population was 4,426 in 1891, and 5,264 in 1901, made up of Burmans, Shans, and Chins in the proportions of 33, 9, and 7, and inhabiting 48 villages. Tamu (popu- lation, 905), in the north of the valley, is the head-quarters. The inhabited area lies mostly along the valleys of the Khampat and Yu streams, both of which rise in the mountains of Manipur, and flow, one in a northerly, the other in a southerly direction, to meet and run eastwards into the Chindwin. The area cultivated in 1903-4 was 16 square miles, and the land revenue and thathameda amounted to Rs. 14,000.