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The Karen are a organisation of Indo-Chinese tribes vital principally
in Burma, a easternmost range of a British Indian
Empire, in a Indo-Chinese peninsula, and in a adjoining country
of Siam to a east. They are found between a tenth and
twenty-first degrees of north embodiment and between a ninety-fourth
and one hundredth degrees of easterly longitude. The greater
part of this domain they occupy in tie with a other peoples
of a country, namely, a Burmese, Shan, Siamese, and Chin.
The usually exclusively Karen nation is a hilly segment of a Toungoo
district and a Karenni subdivision, where a Karen chiefs
of 5 states, comprising 4,830 block miles and a competition of
42,240 are still in energy underneath a Advisory Council of a British
Government. There is also a Karen arch statute one of a Shan
States, and 5 other states in that domain are ruled by Taungthu
chiefs. In all these latter districts we find a churned population.[1-1]
The whole organisation of Karen tribes can be divided into 3 divisions,
according to their denunciation or chapter differences. These
are a Sgaw, Pwo, and Bwe groups.
The Sgaw organisation is a largest and many widely scattered. They
are found all by a Irrawaddy Delta, from a closeness of
Prome southward, and from a Arracan seashore easterly to the
neighborhood of Lakong in Siam and southward to a lowest point
of a British possessions. The Paku and Mawnepgha tribes of the
southern Toungoo Hills go to this group. One dialect, with
only slight variations, is used by this region.
The Pwo organisation comprises, besides a Pwo Karen, a Taungthu
tribe, who call themselves a Pao. The Pwo are found along
the seashore from Arracan to Mergui and are pronounced to be found nowhere
more than fifty miles inland. However, we cruise that some
of a Pwo villages in a Henzada district might be a tiny farther
inland than that. The Taungthu are found in a domain of country
running northward from Thaton into a Shan States beyond
Taunggyi.
[ Illustration -- A Creek of a Irrawaddy River Delta, Bassein District ]
{ These streams form a highways of this district. }
[ Illustration -- A Mountain Stream in Burma ]
{ The Karen build their villages along these streams of swift-running water. }
The Bwe tribes are found in a closeness of Toungoo, in a territory
extending from a foothills easterly of that city via the
Karenni subdivision. This is a really alpine region, and we
find a people damaged adult into tiny tribes incompatible from one
another in dialect, dress, and customs. Nine of these tribes were
enumerated in a final Government census. The bent of the
present time is to cruise these tribes some-more closely associated than
was before a case.
In a _Census Report_ of a Government of India for a year
1911 we have a initial gazette of all Karens in a British territory.
In former reports a Karenni domain was not included
in a enumeration. The earnings in 1911 showed a competition of
1,102,695. This was an boost of 199,334 over a prior count
in 1901, due in partial to a increasing border of a domain covered.
The enumeration, however, did not clearly heed between
the Pwo and Sgaw branches of a race, due, as a _Report_
says, to a fact that many returned themselves simply as Karens,
without naming to that bend they belonged. The sum number
of Pwos and Sgaws increasing from 717,859 souls in 1901 to
872,825 in 1911, a benefit of 154,966. This represents a genuine increase
in population, for these tribes are all in Burma proper. The Pwo
dialect is reduction determined than a Sgaw, for some-more of a members
are regulating Burmese to a most larger grade than a Sgaws, although
the latter are also giving adult their denunciation where they are
living in tighten hit with a Burmans. The Sgaw chapter is not
"driving out a Pwo" as gossip says, though is merely holding a own
better opposite a Burmese.
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