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Title: Shans at home. With two chapters on Shan history and literature
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Milne, Leslie, Mrs., 1860-1952 Cochrane, Wilbur Willis
Subjects: Shan (Asian people)
Publisher: London : John Murray
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library

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as are allowed to govern their ownterritories, under the British Superintendent, whodoes not usually interfere with their rulings in civilor criminal cases between Shan and Shan. ** TheSuperintendent exercises general control over theadministration of criminal justice, has power to call forcases, and is vested with wide revisionary powers. Allcriminal jurisdiction, in cases in which either the com-plainant or accused is a European or American, or aGovernment servant, or a British subject not a nativeof a Shan State, is withdrawn from the Chiefs, andvested in the Superintendent and Assistant Superin-tendents. ^ Sometimes in small matters, when thenearest British official is many miles distant, Indiansand Burmans accept the decision of the Shan officials;but appeals from their judgment can always bemade to the British Government. Assistant Superin-tendents are stationed in different parts of the country,and they travel from time to time through their * Imperial Gazetteer of India^ 1908.
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18 8) KACHIN MARRIED WOMAN. REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE 189 districts, and are always ready to listen to complaintsor receive petitions. Owing to the distances and thetime lost in travelling over bad roads, it might beadvisable to increase the number of Assistant Superin-tendents. The State of South Hsenwi, with an areaof 2,400 square miles, has one resident British official(Assistant Superintendent), the State of North Hsenwi,with an area of 6,330 square miles, has also only one.When the country was annexed, torture, crucifixion,impalement, and slavery were forbidden, also capitalpunishment for crimes other than murder. Althoughtorture is strictly prohibited, undesirable methods areoccasionally practised by village headmen and othernative officials, in out-of-the-way districts, in order toextract confession from unwilling witnesses. Shans,like other Eastern nations, approve of a certain amountof torture, and think it strange that the English shouldcondemn what, to them, is a most sensibl

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