Contents:
Preface.
1. Periodizing North East India history.
2. Sources on the history of the Khasi-Jaintias in libraries and archives in the United Kingdom.
3. Technology and socio-economic linkages of the Khasi-Jaintias in pre-colonial times.
4. Control of the foothills: khasi-Jaintia trade and markets in the late eighteenth century.
5. Trade and markets in the Khasi Jaintia hills: changed conditions in the 19th and 20th centuries.
6. Colonialism and Syiemship succession: a study of Cherra State (1901-1902).
7. British policy towards the Khasi states.
8. The federation of Khasi states: three phases of its history.
9. The integration of the Khasi states into the Indian Union.
10. Call of freedom from the hills: Tirot Sing and his significance in the freedom struggle.
11. The last days of David Scott.
12. Remembering Thomas Jones.
13. Among many writers: contribution of Homiwell Lyngdoh to Khasi history.
14. Indigenous roots: Hajom Kissor Singh and the founding of Unitarianism in the Khasi-Jaintia hills.
15. David Roy: notes on the Khasis.
16. Traditional institutions of Governance in the hills of North East India: the Khasi experience.
17. The North East: Home of many tribes and communities. The seventeen essays in this collection relate to the Khasi-jaintias of Meghalaya in North East India and cover a time span from their pre-colonial past, through the colonial era and into more contemporary times. All but one of the essays in this collection were researched and published during the author s years at NEHU. All the essays have been looked at afresh and updated. The essays do not purport to be a complete modern history of the tribe-there are several areas of their history that have not been covered in this collection as they have been studied by other colleagues and scholars