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	Khasi Hills Meghalaya,Khasi Hills Information Guide,Meghalaya Khasi Hills Information Guide
		Shillong is the district headquarters of East Khasi Hills District.
		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.
		The Jaintia Hills District bound the district to the east and the West Khasi Hills District to the west.
	www.indiantravelportal.com /meghalaya/khasi-hills (1657 words)

	Meghalaya Tribes,Traditional Tribes in Meghalaya India,Meghalaya Traditional Tribes
		The Khasi, Jaintia, Bhoi, War collectively known as the Hynniewtrep people predominantly inhabit the districts of East Meghalaya, also known to be one of the earliest ethnic group of settlers in the Indian sub-continent, belonging to the Proto Austroloid Monkhmer race.
		The Garo Hills is predominantly inhabited by the Garos, belonging to the Bodo family of the Tibeto-Burman race, said to have migrated from Tibet.
		The Khasis, the Jaintias and the Garos have a matrilineal society.
	www.indiantravelportal.com /meghalaya/tribes (1166 words)

	welcome to rupaliparda.com [Khasi Section]
		Prior to its occupation by the British, in the third decade of the nineteenth century, this country extended towards the Brahrnaputra on the north, the Cachar Hills on the east, the Surma on the south and the Garo Hills on the west.
		The Wars inhabit the Southern belt of the slopes to the valleys of the Surma; the Bhois and Lynngams inhabit the northern lower hills extending towards the Brahmaputra Valley.
		Arthropolcgists do believe that the Khasis are the remnants of the first Mongolian overflow from the traditional cradle of the Indo-Chinese race and that they established themselves in their present habitat at a very remote period.
	www.rupaliparda.com /khasi/introduction.htm (2242 words)

	RCILTS, IIT Guwahati (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		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)

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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.
		It is bounded on the south by the Cachar Hills and East Pakistan, on the east by the United Mikir and North Cachar Hills Districts, on the north by the plains of the Kamrup and Nowgong Districts, and on the west by the Garo Hills.
		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)

	BASIC FACTS OF MEGHALAYA
		The Khasi Hills and Jaintia Hills which form the central and eastern part of Meghalaya is an imposing plateau with rolling grasslands, hills and river valleys.
		The greater part of Garo Hills range in height from 450 m to 600 m and drop steeply to the Brahmaputra valley on the north and to the plains of Bangladesh on the south.
		In the Khasi and Jaintia hills, the rivers that flow in a northerly direction include the Khri, the Umtrew, the Umiam, the Umkhem besides the Kupli on the border between Jainita Hills and North Cachar Hills.
	megipr.nic.in /basic_facts.htm (1037 words)

	Khasi Hills,Meghalaya Khasi Hill Tours,Khasi Hills Tours to Maghalaya,Maghalaya Hill Tours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Khasi Hills in Meghalaya forms the central part of the state of Meghalaya in the north east of India.
		Khasi Hills in Meghalaya is the best known hills resort in north east India and is regarded one of the best in the country.
		Khasi Hills is the picture perfect destination in Meghalaya with numerous places to visit.
	www.north-east-india.com /meghalaya/khasi-hills.html (692 words)

	KHASI AND JAINTIA HILLS - Online Information article about KHASI AND JAINTIA HILLS
		lime from the Khasi Hills, and the quarries along their southern slope are inexhaustible.
		The Khasi Hills were conquered by the British in 1833.
		The inhabitants, called Syntengs, a cognate tribe to the Khasis, were subjected to a moderate income tax, an innovation against which they rebelled in 186o and 1862.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /KHA_KRI/KHASI_AND_JAINTIA_HILLS.html (716 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion
		Union to relocate the Meghalaya Board of Secondary Education from Tura in the Garo hills to Shillong, the state capital in the Khasi hills, and also to revamp its present malfunctioning machinery.
		Against this backdrop, it is hardly surprising that the Khasis contend they emerge taller on merit, while the Garos attribute their plight to apathy and negligence.
		Khasi regional politics over the past decade has led to a power struggle, with governments in a scramble to break the record for being in power for the shortest duration, with one lasting less than a month.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1050705/asp/opinion/story_4942671.asp (1153 words)

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		The Khasi and Jaintia tribesmen follow the traditional matrilineal norm, wherein the "Ka Khadduh" (or the youngest daughter) inherits all the property and acts as the caretaker of aged parents and any unmarried siblings.
		The highest point in Meghalaya is the Shillong Peak in the Khasi Hills overlooking the city of Shillong.
		The West Khasi Hills district is the largest district in the state with a geographical area of 5247 square kilometres.
	www.gamecheatz.net /games.php?title=Meghalaya (4138 words)

	khasi people of Meghalaya northeastern india - Asia Finest Discussion Forum
		Meghalaya is the homeland mainly of the Khasis, the Jaintias and the Garos.
		The Garos inhabit western Meghalaya, the Khasis in central Meghalaya, and the Jaintias in eastern Meghalaya.
		The Khasi predominantly inhabit the districts east of Meghalaya, also known to be one of the earliest ethnic group of settlers in the Indian sub-continent, belonging to the Proto Austroloid Monkhmer race.
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=17592 (907 words)

	Crafts of North-East - Introduction - MEGHALAYA
		The Khasi and Jaintia tribes are matrilineal in character in which, the immovable property of the deceased, is inherited by females, especially the youngest daughter.
		It is said that Khasis were the earliest immigrants who made their way across northern Myanmar to Khasi in the plain of East Assam where they established new centre.
		The ancient kingdoms of Khasis were confined to the plain mostly in the Kamrup and Nagaon Districts, Assam and eastwards.
	ignca.nic.in /craft054.htm (1180 words)

	ECONOMY-assam
		In Assam, coal occurs in Garo hills, Khasi and Jaintai hills, Mikir hills, Jaipur and Makum.
		One of the largest outcrops of limestone is at the foot of the Khasi hills.
		The sillimanite deposits of the Nongstoin state in the Khasi hills are world famous from the point of view of quantity and purity of the mineral.
	www.webindia123.com /assam/economy/economy1.htm (769 words)

	Meghalaya Tribes,Famous Meghalaya Tribes of North East India,Famous Meghalaya India Tribes
		The Khasis that inhabit along the southern tracts are known as War and those living in the Khasi Hills are known as War-Khasis and in the Jaintia hills as War-Pnars and War-Jaintias.
		The Khasis settling in the northern lowlands and foothills are known as Bhois.
		And lastly the Khasis who inhabit the eastern part of Meghalaya, ie, the Khasi Hills and the Jaintia Hills are known as Jaintias or Pnars.
	www.indiasite.com /meghalaya/meghalyatribes.html (736 words)

	NORTHEAST VIOLENCE - An Overall View
		Brahmaputra, Imphal and Surma valleys with surrounding mountains and hills are the geo-political boundaries of Northeast India.
		One can understand that the hill people of the region were under historical isolation from the socio-cultural interaction with the larger civilisational masses for centuries and were therefore apprehensive against the imaginary danger to their ethnic identity.
		The belief of the hill people that they were sovereign entity before their annexation by the British is applicable to a number of ethnic groups in the country.
	www.saag.org /papers17/paper1700.html (3511 words)

	RCILTS, IIT Guwahati (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Khasi language and its various dialects(see section on Khasi) are spoken mainly in the districts of West Khasi hills, East Khasi hills, and Jaintia hills, while Garo particularly its dialects Abeng, Achik and Awe (for detail see section on Garo) are spoken mainly in the districts East and West Garo hills.
		Karbi belonging to the Kuki-Chin group is found in areas bordering the Karbi-Anglong district of Assam in the East Khasi hills district of Meghalaya.
		The population according to the 1991 census of Khasi, Garo, Asamiya, Bangla, Nepali, Rabha, Koch and Karbi is respectively 8,79,192; 5,47,690; 34,118; 1,44,261; 49,186; 20,455; 18,698 and 9,582.
	www.iitg.ernet.in /rcilts/lang_mg.html (231 words)

	Early Eco-Philosophers Among the Tribal People: Letter from India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Already in 1908, in the Imperial Gazetteer of India (xv, R55) it has been admitted that the Khasi hills are "clothed with clumps of oak, chestnut, magnolia, beech and other trees, which superstition has preserved from the axe of the wood cutter" (Emphasis added).
		Thus, the Khasi (and other tribes in North-East India) represent not only an aspect of the historical richness of human cultures, but they may become an important laboratory (perhaps model is a better term) to help us Westerners learn to live with nature symbiotically.
		I myself think that injustice is done to Khasi people and to the richness of human culture by the continuous onslaught of Christianity, and by treating them as barbarians that ought to be converted.
	trumpeter.athabascau.ca /content/v10.4/skolimowski.html (1957 words)

	Mineral Resources
		Sedimentary white Clay or Lithomargic Clay is found in Cherrapunji and Mahadek in Khasi Hills, Larnai and Tongseng in Jaintia Hills and Nangwalbibra and Rongrengiri in Garo Hills.
		Glass-Sand or Silica-Sand occurs in Laitryngew, Umstew and Kreit in Khasi Hills and Tura in Garo Hills.
		The Uranium deposit located at Domiasiat in West Khasi Hills district is of higher grade compared to a deposit presently been exploited in the country.
	www.meghalaya.nic.in /naturalres/mineral.htm (1226 words)

	Freeindiamedia.com, Express your impartial, radical, grassroot views on current issues. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In sharp contrast to the patriarchal system, among the Khasis, a family without a daughter is considered a 'dying clan', a status that traditionally evokes horror.
		This is perhaps the first law of its kind in the country that makes an attempt at defining the characteristics of what makes up a particular community and one which also provides for stripping a non-adhering individual of his or her membership of the ethnic status.
		Among the Khasis, the youngest daughter inherits the family's ancestral property.
	www.freeindiamedia.com /women/06_feb_06.html (1080 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Khasi
		Meghalaya is in the Garo, Khasi, and Jaintia hills, at an elevation of 4,000-6,000 ft (1,220-1,830 m).
		It is a summer resort c.5,000 ft (1,525 m) high in the Khasi Hills.
		Christian Khasi and Garo tribes inhabit the surrounding districts.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Khasi (326 words)

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		He was the founder of Unitarianism in the Khasi Hills, or as he termed it "The Religion of the One True God." He grew up in a context of the white, Christian missionaries having all the strength and power within the political context of the Britisher's rule.
		At the time, the early Khasi Unitarians did hope that a missionary would be sent to help them through tough times of having their buildings burned down and so much slander said against them.
		When I arrived in the Khasi Hills, I found that there was a strong desire on the part of the people to understand more about theology.
	www.uuaa.org /sermons/JourneytotheKhasiHills.txt (4795 words)

	Dwellers of the high hills :the Khasis of Meghalaya
		Khasi men and women have their own dress code but keep it flexible to allow causal dressing.
		In the interior areas of the Khasi hills men folk wear the jympong, a sleeveless coat which leaves the neck and the arms bare.
		Another remarkable piece of jwellery of the Khasis is the rupa-tylli or silver collar-a broad, flat silver band which hangs down the neck in front and is secured from behind.
	www.shillong4u.com /culture/dj.asp (322 words)

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		Title: On the geological structure of part of the Khasi Hills : with observations on the meterology & ethnology of that district / Thomas Oldham.
		Social and political history of the Khasi people in Meghalaya, with a note on the role of Tirot Singh, 1802-1834, in his fight against the British occupation of Khasi Hills District.
		Commemorative of the Khasi chieftain Tirot Singh, 1802-1834; comprises articles on his confrontation with the British against their occupation of the Khasi and Jaintia hills region of northeastern India and sociopolitical conditions of the period in the region.
	www.ling.hawaii.edu /faculty/stampe/AA/AA-BIB/mon-khmer.melvyl (11633 words)

	Garo Hills,Meghalaya Hill Tours,Meghalaya Adventure Hill,Meghalaya India Hill Tours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Garo Hills known for its abundance of wildlife attracts naturalists and photographers to capture the multifaceted sights of a unique range of flora and fauna.
		The highest point of the Garo Hills region of the state is the Nokrek Peak.
		Clustered on either side by vast evergreen hills of Bamboo, the falls itself appears to be on the sway, leaving the viewer with memories of ecstatic joy.
	www.north-east-india.com /meghalaya/garo-hills.html (842 words)

	AT Editorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The story of the NC Hills district inso far as the ethnic strife is concerned, is no different from that of Karbi Anglong.
		One factor was the killing of a son of the State Hills Areas Development Minister, GC Langthasa in broad daylight at Haflong on May 12 last by some unidentified masked gunmen, suspected to be the members of the Hmar People’s Convention.
		The thickly-forested Singhasan hill was essentially the bone of contention between the UPDS and the KRA which had recently victimised many an innocent person of both Kuki and Karbi communities.
	www.assamtribune.com /jan2904/edit1.html (923 words)

	DISTRICT COUNCIL OF UNITED KHASI & JAINTIA HILLS& ORS. ETC v. MISS SITIMON SAWIAN ETC [1971] INSC 214; [1972] 1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In that report, emphasis was laid on the anxiety of the Hill people of the North-Eastern Frontier areas about their land and fear of their exploitation by the people from the more advanced and crowded areas in the plains.
		According to the report there was an emphatic unanimity of opinion among the hill people that there should be control of immigration of outsiders and of allocation of land to them, such control being already vested in the hill people themselves.
		Jhaver and ors.(1) in which it was explained that the question whether a proviso in a given case is, by way of an exception or a condition to the substantive provision or whether it is in itself a substantive provision, must be determined on the substance of the proviso and not its form.
	www.austlii.edu.au /~andrew/CommonLII/INSC/1971/214.html (2897 words)

	Exploring Caves in Meghalaya
		Garo hills known for its abundance of wild life, should interest naturalist and photographers to capture the facts of life of animals and the flora and fauna.
		Two mountain ranges- the Arabella range and the Tura range, passage through the Garo Hills, forming the great Balpakram Valley in between.
		Tura has a picturesque landscape of hills against a backdrop of low lying plains, with the mighty river Brahmaputra making sweeping curves as it flows towards Bangladesh.
	www.travelmasti.com /domestic/meghalaya/caves.htm (679 words)

	HIMAL SOUTH ASIAN \| March 2003 \| Essay \| Uprooted in the Northeast
		Returning to the controversy in Meghalaya over Khasi succession rules, the authority of the Khasi Hills Autonomous District Council to decide on Khasi succession rules is derived from the Sixth Schedule of the constitution.
		Indeed, there are many Khasi clans today that trace their ancestry to non-Khasi women who were wives or concubines of Khasi men, abducted from the plains in the course of trading expeditions and wars.
		As Khasi sociologist Tiplut Nongbri points out in a recent paper on Khasi women and matriliny: while the Khasi rules of descent may render “the ethnic boundary of the Khasi highly porous, it makes the addition of new members into the society relatively easy and adds to the vibrancy of the system”.
	www.himalmag.com /2003/march/essay_2.html (6073 words)

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