Major Thomas Herbert Lewin Thangliena B.S.C | |
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 Colonel Thomas H. Lewin c. 1890 | |
| Nickname(s) | Lushai: Thangliena |
| Born | April 1, 1839 Lewisham, London |
| Died | February 11, 1916 (aged 76) Dorking, Surrey, England |
| Buried | |
| Allegiance | United Kingdom |
| Rank | Major |
| Known for | Superintendent of Chittagong Hill Tracts |
| Battles / wars | Indian Mutiny Lushai Expedition |
| Memorials | T.H Lewin Memorial, Mizoram |
| Alma mater | Addiscombe Military College |
| Spouse(s) |
Margaret McClean (m. 1876) |
| Children | Everest Harriet Grote Macdonald (b. Lewin) Charles McClean Lewin Audrey Hale Waterhouse (b. Lewin) |
| Relations | George Lewin (Father) Mary Lewin (b. Friend, Mother) |
| Other work | The Hill Tracts of Chittagong and the Dwellers therein (Calcutta, 1869) The Wild Races of South-Eastern India (England, 1870) Hill Proverbs of the Inhabitants of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (Calcutta, 1873) A handbook on the Lushai Dialect (1874) A manual of Tibetan (1879) A fly on the wheel (1884) |
Thomas Herbert Lewin (Lushai: Thangliena, lit. 'Greatly Famous', Chakma: Lubin Saab, 1 April 1839-11 February 1916) was a British military officer, linguist and ethnologist. He is most well known for his role as the superintendent of the Chittagong Hill Tracts. Lewin studied and published on the tribes of the northeast frontier on the Chakma, Kuki and Lushais. For this reason he gained the exonym of Thangliena from the Lushai tribes.