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Statistical account of the Khasi and Jaintia Hills
Statistical account of Assam • 2 • Published In 1879 • Pages: 203-255
By: Hunter, William Wilson.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a very general description of Khasi culture and society as known to the early British colonial explorers and administrators during the second half of the 19th century. It also describes environmental features, possibilities of economic development of the region, and the administrative organization as established by the British by the time this account was written (1875).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- Cereal agriculture
- External relations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Khasi
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1996
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- South Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Government Official
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sigrid Khera ; Dubravka Schmalzbauer ; 1970-1973
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- No date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1830-1875
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Khasi and Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya, India
- NotesAdditional notes
- William Wilson Hunter
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 5010765
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Khasi (Indic people)