I had little difficulty in believing these assertions, for we had received accounts that the Tibetan army had scattered in a panic, the Kham levies looting in all directions.
While these were making the direct attack, two other bodies of 400 men each had appeared, all of them Kham men, the best fighters in Tibet.
Our mounted infantry reconnoitred up to within two miles of Nagartse Jong, which was found to be occupied, while reports came in that 1,300 more men from Kham were expected.
From here the mounted infantry, reconnoitring ahead, reported the remnants of the Kham force to be retreating in a disorganized condition, and looting the country en route.
Most, indeed, had retreated in the night, and in reality only about 700 Kham men were left to hold the position.
The caste has two main divisions in Berar, the Dukar Kolhatis and the Kham or Pal Kolhatis.
Next day the kham or marriage-post is placed in the mandwa, a little rice, turmeric and two pice being put in the hole in which it is fixed, and the shed is covered with leaves.
The Kham Gopals are a similar group also belonging to Hyderabad; and are so named because they carry about a long pole (kham) on which they perform acrobatic feats.
Major Gunthorpe states that the Kolhatis or Berias of Berar appear to be the same as the Domras of Bengal; [314] and Mr. Kitts that the Kham Kolhatis are the Domarus of Telingana.
A party of pilgrims from Kham in the distant east are resting on the bank of the Dunglung river.
I remember one day one of the Kham men, a prisoner, was helping me to set in order a refractory watermill stone with which I was trying to grind wheat into flour.
The great chief of the province of Kham inveighed for a length of time against the domination of the Chinese in Thibet.
This mountain was the retreat of a hermit Lama, for whom all the tribes of the province of Kham entertained profound veneration.
For more than a year past, the tribes of Kham have been waging a bloody war, and thou callest that a little dispute.
Leaving Karwan on the 2nd of May, Wolseley made Nam Kham on the 8th.
Nam Kham is the place where Mrs. Leslie Milne resided for fifteen months to gather materials for her charming book, "Shans at Home.
The men in this house--all Kham warriors--seemed to be filled with an extraordinary fury.
Against a similar rabble it might have been possible to rush the wall with his handful of Sikhs, but these new Kham levies who held the Karo la were a very different type of soldier.
The old man, Katsak Kasi by name, was a Tibetan from the Kham province, acting at Phari as trade agent for the Bhutanese Government.
The new levies from Kham and Shigatze were composed of very different men from those we herded like sheep at Guru.
One Khamman shot a Gurkha who was looking into the cave where he was hiding.
The Kham men who opposed us at the first Karo la action, the Shigatze men who attacked the mission in May, and the force from Lhasa who hurled themselves on Kangma, were all new levies.
Kham or Khams includes or included the greater part of Chinese Tibet.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kham" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
