62 SOCIAL SCIENTIST to him that they must be tried by his courts, and there is no intention on the part of the Government of trying them elsewhere or of preventing their trial by his courts; but in order to allow their extradition for trial by him, it is necessary that he should send in such evidence as will warrant, not a trial, but a committal, which if he does, the prisoners will be made over to him but if he does not, within the term of a few days to be fixed, they must be released for want of anything to authorize their detention.11 Owing to the lack of proper witnesses and non-cooperation of the king the prisoners had to be set free. Britsh Initiative The government felt that the king should not be allowed to continue to be "apathetic to the true interests of his kingdom". The commissioner was asked to impress upon the king that the defence of the border was a duty, the continued neglect of which would involve disagreeable consequences.12 The king was summoned at Commilla to meet the commissioner and to discuss defence matters, but the king refused to meet the commissioner on the plea of bad health. The British government apparently did not accept the king's excuse and was consequently highly displeased. Under government instructions Lieutenant Graham visited Agartala in the first week of August 1861.He persuaded the king to make arrangements to defend his border against Kuki outrages. The king, accompanied by Lieutenant Graham, came to Gomilla to meet the commissioner and after discussions agreed (1) to establish five frontier posts of twenty men each (2) to establish a stockade of 150 men on the Fenny connected with the posts by a road (3) to bear the expenses of six drill sergeants provided by the British Indian government to drill and train the kings^s force and (4) to provide facilities for a topographical survey of Tripura. The superintendent was asked to exclude all the hostile tribes from the markets of the plains. The exclusion of the hill tribes from the markets was indeed a punishment since these markets were the chief outlets for the hill produce. It was through these markets that the hillmen used to barter their cotton and coarse cloth for rice, salt, hardware, gunpowder and match-locks. Regarding the origin of the raids, Captain J R Magrath, the superintendent of the hill tribes remarked: I believe the real origin of the raids made in Hill Tipperah is in retaliation for attacks on the Kukis by the Tipperah Rajah^s people, and the motive of these attacks is more for the sake of procuring women and children as slaves and concubines than for obtaining plunder, which is also of course an incentive. If the Tipperah Rajah forgoes all wanton attacks on the Kuki tribes, I feel now that raids into his country would not be so frequent and possibly would stop altogether in a short time. To prevent the Tipperah Rajah's subjects from attacking the Kukis, it will be necessary to do away with