Captain Thomas Herbert Lewin (T. H. Lewin) was a renowned British military officer and anthropologist, who served as the first Deputy Commissioner of the Chittagong Hill Tracts region and was highly popular among the local indigenous people by the name ‘Thangluma’. He conducted deep research on the language and culture of this region, and his authored books ‘The Hill Tracts of Chittagong and the Dwellers Therein’ and ‘Wild Races of South-Eastern India’ are still considered extremely important primary sources in the study of South Asian anthropology. He played a special role in introducing the lifestyle of the remote hill communities of the Chittagong Hill Tracts to the Western world and in protecting their rights within the administrative framework of that time.
