AKA HILLS, a tract of country on the north-east frontier of India, occupied by an independent tribe called the Akas. It lies north of the Darrang district of eastern Bengal and Assam, and is bounded on the east by the Dafla Hills and on the west by inde pendent Bhutia tribes. The Aka country is very difficult of access, the direct road from the plains leading along the precipitous chan nel of the Bhareli river, which divides the Aka from the Dafla country. The Akas are a brave people, and the men are strong and well-made. They have clans graded socially, a dual organiza tion and burial of the dead. They worship the Bhareli river an nually, poison their arrows with aconite and play both varieties of nose flute. Their reputation as raiders is sufficiently shown in the division of the tribe into two clans, the Hazari-khoas or "eaters of a thousand hearths," and the Kapah-chors or "thieves that lurk in the cotton fields." In the early years of British occu pation, about 1829, they gave much trouble; and in 1883 they broke out once more into their old habits. They raided into the British district of Darrang and carried off several native forest officers as hostages. An expedition was sent against them under Gen. Sale Hill with 86o troops, which was completely successful. Living among them as a labouring but not servile class is the Niggiya or Khoa tribe divided into four clans.
See Nevill, "The Akas," Assam Census Report, 1921, I. App. B. i.