James Philip Mills
| James Philip Mills ICS CSI CIE MA | |||||||||
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| Born | 1890 | ||||||||
| Died | 1960 | ||||||||
| Residence |
Mokokchung, Naga Hills, Assam c/o King, Hamilton & Co., 4 & 5 Koila Ghat Street, Calcutta [1923] Government House, Shillong, Assam [census] 4 Wilton Street, Grosvenor Place, SW1 [1925] Bengal United Service Club, Chowreghee, Calcutta [1927] Kohima, Naga Hills, Assam [1931] c/o Lloyds Bank Ltd, 101-1 Clive Street, Calcutta, India [1935] Stonylands, Shillong, Assam [1937] East House, Sydling St Nicholas, Dorchester, Dorset [A31] | ||||||||
| Occupation |
civil service ethnographer | ||||||||
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Contents
Notes
Office Notes
RAI Council 1951-2 President
RAI Council 1952-3 President
House Notes
1919.10.14 proposed by J.H. Hutton, seconded by H.S. Harrison
1930.02.25 It was resolved ... to ask Mr Mills to act for Assam as Dr Hutton had been seconded to India
1938.02.22 The list of Local Correspondents was considered. The following names were suggested: Prof. Torii for Japan, Mr H.D. Skinner for New Zealand, Mr J.P. Mills for Assam, Mr H. Stevenson for Burma, Dr Nadel for Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Mr Godfrey Wilson for N. Rhodesia.
1942 Rivers Memorial Medal
Adviser to the Bengal Govt. on administration of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, 1935, etc.; Reader, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1948-55; President 1951-3
Notes From Elsewhere
James Philip Mills (1890-1960) was a member of the Indian Civil Service and an ethnographer.
Mills was born in 1890 and was educated at Winchester College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
In 1913 he joined the Indian Civil Service and was posted to Assam Province.[1] During the First World War he was assigned to the Naga Hills District, where he was appointed subdivisional officer to the Mokokchung subdivision.
Alongside his official tasks, Mills took an interest in ornithology, gathering information for the Bombay Natural History Society, and in ethnography. He published a number of monographs on Naga peoples in the 1920s, and in 1930 was named Honorary Director of Ethnography for Assam.[1] The same year he married Pamela Moira Vesey-FitzGerald. In 1943 he was appointed Adviser to the Governor of Assam for Tribal Areas and States.[1]
Mills retired from the Indian Civil Service in 1947, and the following year was appointed Reader in the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. From 1951 to 1953 he served as President of the Royal Anthropological Institute. He retired from SOAS in 1955 and died on 12 May 1960
Publications
External Publications
The Lhota Nagas, 1922
The Ao Nagas, 1926
The Rengma Nagas, 1937
"Folk Stories in Lhota Naga", J. Asiat. Soc. Beng., 22/5 (1926) with J.H. Hutton, "Ancient Monoliths of North Cachar", J. Asiat. Soc. Beng., 25/1 (1929)
House Publications
Related Material Details
RAI Material
census
photos he collected
MS 8 Mongsen Ao word list
Other Material
PRM: papers