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Sidney Endle
d. 1907
A longtime Anglican missionary in Assam, he became one of the best-known early writers on the Kachari, or Bodo, people. His work blends close observation, language study, and a deep interest in the communities he lived among for decades.
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The Kacháris
by Sidney Endle
About the author
Born in Totnes, Devon, around 1840, Sidney Endle spent most of his working life in Assam in northeastern India. Reference sources describe him as an Anglican missionary and chaplain who arrived there in the 1860s and continued his work for more than forty years.
Endle is remembered chiefly for writing about the Kachari people, including The Kacháris, which was published after his death with an introduction by J. D. Anderson. He also worked on the Kachari language, and his books remain useful as early records of Bodo society, customs, and speech.
He died in 1907. What makes his writing still interesting is that it comes from long firsthand experience: he was not just passing through, but lived for years among the people he described.