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|year_start = 1912<br />
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|event_start= Bifurcation of [[Eastern Bengal and Assam]]<ref name=EB1911>{{cite EB1911 |wstitle=Khasi and Jaintia Hills |volume=15 |pages=773–774}}</ref><br />
|year_end = 1947<br />
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|image_map =Bengal gazetteer 1907-9.jpg<br />
|image_map_caption = The Khasi and Jaintia Hills in the [[Bengal Gazetteer]], 1907<br />
|stat_area1 = 15947<br />
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[[File:1947-Khasi_states.png|thumb|270px|Khasi states, 1947]]<br />
The '''Khasi and Jaintia Hills''' are a [[mountainous]] region that was mainly part of Assam and Meghalaya. [http://www.timesofassam.com/articles/the-assam-legislative-assembly-and-the-prime-minister/ The Assam Legislative Assembly] 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]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ide.go.jp/English/Publish/Download/Jrp/pdf/133_3.pdf |title=Integration of the North East: the State Formation Process |access-date=16 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140219000110/http://www.ide.go.jp/English/Publish/Download/Jrp/pdf/133_3.pdf |archive-date=19 February 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
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== Jaintia Hills ==<br />
{{main|East Jaintia Hills district}}<br />
{{main|West Jaintia Hills district}}<br />
The Jaintia Hills are located further to the east from the Khasi Hills.<br />
The twelve Chiefs of the ''elaka'' (tribal province) of the ''Pnars'', a [[Khasi people| Khasi Sub-tribe]] are styled ''Dolloi'', and the land is called after them in Khasi: KA RI KHADAR DOLLOI (‘Land of 12 Tribal Chiefs‘) - they are in [[Nartiang]] itself (see the Raja, uniquely also styled, as premier Chief: ''U Kongsong''), and in [[Amwi]], [[Jowai]], [[Lakadong]], [[Mynso]], [[Nongbah]], [[Nongjngi]], [[Nongphyllut]], [[Nongtalang]], [[Raliang]], [[Shangpung]], [[Sutnga]] (see below; the Syiems).<br />
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Above them is the only true princely ruler of the area, the Raja of the [[Jaintia Kingdom]]. His winter capital, [[Jaintiapur]] is now in [[Bangladesh]], while his summer residence shifted from [[Sutnga]] (where the family started as Syiems) to [[Nartiang]]; also a [[palace]] in the commercial center Borghat in [[Meghalaya]].<br />
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The Jaintia Hills used to be a part of the Jaintia Hills District. The district has been bifurcated into two separate districts, namely, [[East Jaintia Hills district|East Jaintia Hills]] and [[West Jaintia Hills district|West Jaintia Hills]] on 31 July 2012.<br />
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== Khasi Hills ==<br />
{{main|Khasi Hills}}<br />
The Khasi Hills are located east of the [[Garo Hills]].<br />
The other Khasi tribes did not have princes but their twenty petty states (''hima''), and sometimes even smaller tribal divisions, are led by one or two Chiefs -selected in various ways- usually styled ''Siem, Syiem''.<ref>Great Britain India Office. ''[[The Imperial Gazetteer of India]]''. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908.</ref><br />
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The names of these chieftainships are : [[Bhowal]], [[Cherra]] (or Sohra; capital [[Cherrapunji]]), [[Dwara]] (capital [[Hat Dwara]]), [[Jirang]], [[Khyrim|Khyri(e)m]] (capital Cherrapunjee, under a Radja), [[Langrin]], [[Langïong]], [[Maharam, India|Maharam]], [[Malai Sohmat]], [[Marriw]], [[Mawdon]], [[Mawiang]], [[Mawlong]], [[Mawphlang]], [[Mylliem]] (including [[Shillong]] city, the colonial capital of all Tribal Assam), [[Nobosohphoh]], [[Nonglwai]], [[Nongkhlaw]], [[Nongspung]], [[Nongstoiñ]], [[Pamsanngut]], [[Rambrai]], [[Shella]], [[Sohïong]]. or Sardar ...<br />
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== References ==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* [http://www.terra.es/personal7/jqvaraderey/1947KHAS.GIF Map of the Khasi states]<br />
* [http://www.fullbooks.com/The-Khasis2.html The Khasis by R.R.T.Gurdon; part 2]<br />
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