'Navvy' was a British undertaking to build the so-called Tiddim Road across the Chin hills close to the frontier of India and Burma as a means of supplying the major base area being developed on the Manipur plain at Imphal to support operations in central Burma (1943/44).
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Last update: 23/05/23
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