"The Shans are an

extremely numerous and widely spread race. To the west

they extend into Assam. In fact, in the thirteenth century

A.D. they conquered that country, but have to a great extent

become merged in the Hindu population, though there are

still some communities of them who speak the Shan

language. In Kham-ti, at the source of the western branch

of the Irrawaddy, is another isolated group of the Shan race,

and there are also Shans on the upper course of the

Chindwin River.

Coming further east, the plains of Burma, north of

about lat. 23°, are chiefly inhabited by men of Shan race,

who in some districts are taking to talking the Burmese

language. Further east still are the Shan States, where

the ruling population is Shan, and from here they have

spread southwards into Siam, for the Siamese are merely a

southern off-shoot of the Shans, and the name Siam is

probably a variation of the name given to them by the

Burmese and other races."

THE SHANS

VOLUME I

BY

W. W. COCHRANE . Burma

1915

pdf files for download....

http://www.archive.org/download/amongstshans00colqrich/amongstshans00colqrich.pdf

http://www.archive.org/download/theshans01coch/theshans01coch.pdf

http://www.archive.org/download/shanenglishdicti00cushiala/shanenglishdicti00cushiala.pdf

http://www.archive.org/download/shansathomewitht00milnrich/shansathomewitht00milnrich.pdf

the source web pages....

http://openlibrary.org/works/OL252196W/Shans_at_home

http://openlibrary.org/works/OL1059484W/Amongst_the_Shans

http://openlibrary.org/works/OL6691471W/The_Shans

http://openlibrary.org/works/OL143661W/A_Shan_and_English_dictionary

Thanks, interesting links.

For those interested in anthropology I have a few more links:

http://www.peopleand...ish/english.htm

http://pratyeka.org/...gotten_kingdom/