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	Khasi And Jaintia Hills - LoveToKnow 1911
		KHASI AND JAINTIA HILLS, a district of British India, in the Hills division of Eastern Bengal and Assam.
		From time immemorial, Lower Bengal has drawn its supply of lime from the Khasi Hills, and the quarries along their southern slope are inexhaustible.
		The Khasi Hills were conquered by the British in 1833.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Khasi_And_Jaintia_Hills (595 words)

	RCILTS, IIT Guwahati
		Khasi is a member of the Mon-Khmer branch of the Austro-Asiatic language family.
		A variety of Khasi, known as Khynriem is spoken around Cherrapunji in the southern part of the state and has been used in schools, newspapers and other literary activities and it has generally been considered as the standard dialect of the Khasi language.
		Lyngngam: spoken in the West Khasi hills in Mawshynrut block, Syntang (Pnar or Jaintia) spoken in the central plateau of Jaintia hills, War spoken in the low Southern valleys bordering Sylhet plains in Bangladesh in the East Khasi Hills district.
	www.iitg.ernet.in /rcilts/khasi.htm (1042 words)

	Khasi Hills Meghalaya,Khasi Hills Information Guide,Meghalaya Khasi Hills Information Guide
		Shillong is the district headquarters of East Khasi Hills District.
		The West Khasi Hills District lies in the central part of the State of Meghalaya and is situated between approximately 25° 10' and 25° 51' N latitude, and between 90° 44' and 91° 49' E longitude.
		It is bounded on the northwest by Kamrup district of Assam, on the northeast by Ri Bhoi district, on the east by East Khasi Hills district, on the south by Bangladesh, on the west by East Garo and South Garo Hills districts.
	www.indiantravelportal.com /meghalaya/khasi-hills (1550 words)

	Khasi Summary
		Khasi (Ki Khasi or Ri Lum) is the name of a tribe inhabiting the Khasi and Jaintia Hills of Meghalaya State in northeast India.
		The Khasi are a tribe in Meghalaya, India and in parts of Bangladesh, who call themselves Hynniew trep (which means "the seven huts" in the Khasi language).
		The Khasi tribes are usually dependent upon jhoom cultivation in which the vegetation is left to grow totally under the care of nature.
	www.bookrags.com /Khasi (447 words)

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		The Khasi proper live in the upland center of the District, while the closely related Jaintia inhabit the southeastern part of that region, and the affiliated Lynngam live on the western border of the Khasi Hills, near the Garo Hills.
		Khasi, Jaintia, and Lynngam are the three major dialects spoken, with variations occurring in each village.
		According to the 1951 census of India, the total Khasi population in the Khasi-Jaintia Hills District was 363,599 (Nkane 1967: 95).
	lucy.ukc.ac.uk /EthnoAtlas/Hmar/Cult_dir/Culture.7852 (1108 words)

	Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council(HNLC)
		An important objective of the HNLC is to transform Meghalaya as a province exclusively for the Khasi tribe and free it from ‘domination’ by the Garo tribe.
		April 27: The Chief Executive Member of the Khasi Hills Autonomous District Council, H. Shylla, criticizes the threat of the HNLC to pull out of the proposed peace talks with the Meghalaya Government in protest against the latter's permission for Uranium mining at Domiasiat in the West Khasi Hills district.
		August 30: A HNLC cadre, identified as Khlainbor Pakyntein, is arrested from Mawlai Motsyiar in the East Khasi Hills district.
	www.satp.org /satporgtp/countries/india/states/meghalaya/terrorist_outfits/hnlc.htm (7930 words)

	Khasi-Garo Nations
		The Garo and Khasi indigenous communities live in the north and northeastern part of Bangladesh close to the Indian border.
		The government did not even mention the villages of Khasi and Garo people in their project proposal, instead considering them almost illegal inhabitants of the forest.
		Seven indigenous hill villages will be affected: 1,000 Khasi and Garo families will face forceful eviction from their homelands where they have been living for thousand of years.
	www.omigen.org /jpic/id79.htm (521 words)

	Ethnologue 14 report for language code:KHI
		Bhoi in East Khasi Hills, Nongpoh block, and Nonglung in East Khasi Hills, Umksning block, are very different from standard Khasi, with different word order.
		Lyngngam dialect in West Khasi Hills, Mawshynrut block is divergent, and may not be a dialect (Abbi 1997).
		Lyngngam is a former Garo clan, but do not mix with the Garo, and consider themselves to be Khasi (R. Breton 1997).
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=KHI (135 words)

	Definition of khasi - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
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