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Our
Purpose The site has been created
as a free service for those, irrespective of nationality,
who lived and worked in North East India in the Tea industry,
Ferry Service, Oil Industry, ITA administration, ITA Research
Station at Tocklai,etc. The resourceful people included
Planters, Engineers, Agronomists, Accountants, Scientists
Administrators, Aircraft Operators, Doctors, Nurses, and
many others. These lucky people are now mainly retired
and living in various parts of the world. It is hoped that
this website will offer a trip down memory lane and facilitate
communication between these people, their friends and family.
Today there are a large number of children who were born
in N.E. India and have a strong interest in the place
of their birth. We hope to encourage that interest.
Click on this
button to see the latest items posted on the koi-hai site.
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For contact please
e-mail Editorkoihai@aol.com
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December 20 2009
The
site started nearly 11 years ago and needed a tidy up. With
that in mind site changes have been made with some culling
of old items--I hope the changes will make it easier and
enjoyable for you to find your way around the
site--Editor
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KOI-HAI
Website layout-
Home
(this is this page as you are looking at )
Articles This now contains 7 sections
CAMELLIA,
CLUBS, COMPANIES, GRAVES, ITEMS OF INTEREST, MILITARY, AND
TRAVELLER
These have absorbed most of the old articles but with a more logical grouping
Correspondents
This
section has been divided into five sets alphabetically (A
– C), (D – G), (H – L), (M – S), (T – Z).
Reunions These
are Aberdeen & Eastbourne & Cowdray Park
Directories
1949, 1960, and 1964 Assam Directories,
Services Clive
after Cathie (Koi Hai Directory)
"Where are they now",
Obituaries,
Photographs
consists
of photographs with minimum text plus Historic photographs
Books Book
Covers about Tea and N.E. India/Burma plus
reviews
Memories created for "Henderson
Family" ,"Old
Book Links", "Family Memories of
Tea" ,"Tea Histories writings"
"Memories of S.C.
Davidson" NBMR.(North Bengal Mounted Rifles)
Below on this page are a
number of links to sites which may be of interest to you
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Our Pin Up Mongli
Mongli Tossa,
Bagjan Division of Borbam Tea
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As
there now a considerable number of links they have now been
categorized into
#Charitable and good
works
#General Interest
#Researching
Old Relatives in India
Links websites and services which may be of interest
just click
Charitable and good works
The site address for
Terry O'Malley's Exhibition on Afghanistan
is http://ec.europa.eu/ireland/events/index_en.htm
www.tigerawareness.co.uk
Phil Davis is the founder of a charity called Tiger
awareness which helps projects in India --
http://www.aaranyak.org
Aaranyak fosters conservation of biodiversity in Northeast
India through research, environmental education, capacity
building and advocacy for legal and policy reform to usher a
new era of ecological security
www.changemakers.net/studio/02august/das.cfm
A well known Assamese preservationist Soumyadeep
Datta is working hard on helping to preserve the rain
forest near to Digboi/Margherita and which continues up to
the Burma border. Please click the link to read of his
work
General
Interest
http://maxpages.com/jimcorbett
The Jim Corbett Foundation-
http://www.children-of-bangalore.com/whitef1.htm
Whitefield, the Settlement
Today
http://www.dadinani.com
is a web site dedicated to Dadi Nani :
Memories of our Old Grandmothers This book is a
collection of short stories of 25 Indian grandmothers who
were born around 1900. The authors are their grandchildren.
The book covers varied regions-north, south, east and west.
The stories are personal and reflect family memories, which
are often subjective and emotional. The book is a
fascinating, human-interest account of the circumstances in
which these diverse women were born and grew up, their
ideas, aspirations, and achievements over their
lifetimes--it is edited by Subhash & Subodh Mathur
www.indiawijzer.nl,
this is a website created and maintained by Wahid
Saleh originally from Jorhat in Assam and for the last 45
years has lived in the Netherlands--Wahid has many interests
please click to visit and enjoy the site
http://oldsite.library.upenn.edu/etext/sasia/calcutta1947/album1.html"Calcutta
in 1947" A fascinating collection of
photographs taken by an American serviceman while stationed
in Calcutta
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http://www.bn9.co.uk/hislop/Index.htm
This is the link to a website created by the daughter
of an Indian Army officer who joined Sandhurst in 1932 and
then the Indian army in 1935 eventually leaving the army in
1947 and returning to UK for another career It is very
well written by his daughter, and gives an interesting
insight to the life at that time
www.cofepow.org.uk.htm
COFEPOW - Children & Families
of Far East Prisoners of War Please click to see
www.assamco.com
The Assam Company / Duncan Macneill website
Researching
Old Relatives in India ?
For
those who are researching the past and need information on
relatives who lived and worked in India there is a very
helpful service available. This is the India Office at the
British Library located at 96 Euston Road, St Pancras,
London NW1 2DB. In particular they have copies of the annual
Thacker’s Directories. These directories contain a wealth
of information.
nigelrcoats@btinternet.com--Nigel
Coats has a copy of "The recollections of a Tea
Planter" by W.M. Fraser who was in NE India from 1894
to 1907 --the book is basically a list of all the people,
companies and places that he knew or met in that period. The
index lists about 600 names. Nigel very kindly offered that
"If any of your members are interested in people of
that era, I'd be pleased to see if there is a mention of
them." to contact Nigel his e-mail is above
www.fibis.org
Families In British India Society
www.indian-cemeteries.org
Indian
Cemeteries Preserving the memory of historic cemeteries in
India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Burma website
www.bacsa.org.uk
British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia (BACSA)
www.empiremuseum.co.ukThe
British Empire & Commonwealth Museum
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