Novel.

Mamang Dai�s The Black Hill is the story of Kajinsha, a young man from the Mishmi tribe, who falls in love with Gimur, a girl from the Abor tribe in the late 1840s�, in a region that spanned what is now Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. It is a time of change and unrest. The English are using inter-tribal rivalries and proxy wars to make inroads. �Britain had risen as a dominant power in the nineteenth century, and the British East Company with its merchants, soldiers, and naval fleet was playing a pivotal role in restoring Christian communities in� eastern lands.� The story revolves around the murder of a French priest, Father Nicolas Krick, at the hands of tribal people while he is on his way to Tibet, �the land of savage mountaineers� where he plans to spread the word of God.