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Sidney Endle
d. 1907
An Anglican missionary in Assam for more than four decades, he is remembered for careful early studies of Bodo-Kachari language and culture. His best-known book, The Kacháris, helped preserve a detailed record of community life in northeastern India.
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The Kacháris
by Sidney Endle
About the author
Born around 1840 in Totnes, Devon, Sidney Endle became a British missionary and later worked in Assam for roughly 43 years. Sources describe him as educated at Totnes Grammar School and St. Augustine’s College, Canterbury, and note that he arrived in Assam in the 1860s, where he served as both missionary and chaplain.
Endle is best known today for writing about the Bodo-Kachari people of Assam. His works include Outline Grammar of the Kachári (Bárá) Language and The Kacháris, a book published after his death that brought together his long experience of the region, its people, and their traditions.
He died in 1907, apparently in Dibrugarh, Assam. Even now, his name turns up in studies of northeastern India because his writing preserves language, customs, and historical observations that later researchers continued to use.