MILLS, James Philip. Cheshire 18.2.1890 — Dorset 12.5.1960. British Civil Servant and Anthropologist in India. Son of James Edward Mills and Ada Smith, educated at Winchester and 1909-12 Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Entered I.C.S. 1913, served in Assam, from 1916 in Naga Hills District, during WW I served in Jumna Light Horse. Honorary Director of Ethnography for Assam 1930, 1943-47 Adviser to the Governor of Assam for Tribal Areas and States. Retired from India 1947, in 1948-55 Reader at S.O.A.S. C.I.E. 1941, C.S.I. 1947. Married 1930 Pamela Moira Foster-Vesey-FitzGerald (b. 1903), three daughters. An additional interest was zoology, he collected data about local birds and mammals.

Publications: The Lhota Nagas. 39+255 p. L. 1922; The Ao Nagas. 18+500 p. 49 ill. L. 1926; The Rengma Nagas. 10+381 p. 17 pl. L. 1937.

– “Folk stories in Lhota Naga”, JASB N.S. 22, 1926, 235-318; “Certain Aspects of Naga Culture”, JRAnthrInst 56, 1926, 27-35.

– With T. H. Hutton: “Ancient monoliths of North Cachar”, JASB 25, 1929, 285-300.

– “The Mishmis of the Lohit Valley, Assam”, JRAnthrInst 82, 1952, 1-12; small notes in Man.

Sources: *C. von Fürer-Haimendorf, Geogr. Journal 126, 1960, 380f.; J.H. Hutton, Man 60, 1960, 89f. with photo; H.E. Kauffmann, ZfEthnol. 90, 1965, 161f.; *A. Macfarlane, Oxford D.N.B.; Wikipedia.