Khasi and Jaintia Hills

The Khasi and Jaintia Hills are a mountainous region in India that was mainly part of Assam and Meghalaya. This area is now part of the present Indian constitutive state of Meghalaya (formerly part of Assam), which includes the present districts of East Jaintia Hills district, headquarter Khliehriat, West Jaintia Hills district, headquarter Jowai, East Khasi Hills district, headquarter Shillong, and West Khasi Hills district, headquarter Nongstoin.

Khasi-Jaintia Hills
District of Assam Province, British India
1912–1947

The Khasi and Jaintia Hills in the Bengal Gazetteer, 1907
Area 
 1901
15,947 km2 (6,157 sq mi)
Population 
 1901
197,904
History 
 Bifurcation of Eastern Bengal and Assam
1912
1947
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