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Encyclopedia Britannica



SHILLONG

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 859 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SHA-SIV
SHILLONG , a town of British India, in the Khasi Hills
district
  of Eastern Bengal and
Assam
 . It is situated in 25 34' N. and 91 53' E., on a
plateau
  4978 ft. above the sea, 63 m. by cart-road S. of Gauhati, on the Brahmaputra. Pop. (1901) 8384. Shillong practically
dates
  from 1864, when the
district
  head-quarters were transferred from Cherrapunji. It was chosen as the seat of government in 1874i when the province of
Assam
  was constituted. Every one of the public buildings and houses that quickly
grew
  up was levelled to the ground by the
great
  earth-quake of the 12th of June 1897, but they have since been rebuilt. Cantonments are provided for a battalion of Gurkhas with two guns, and Shillong is the headquarters of the Assam brigade of the 8th division of the Northern army. There are a government high school and a training school for masters. The Welsh Presbyterian mission i; active in promoting education. Since 1905, when
Dacca
  became the
capital
  of the new province of Eastern Bengal and Assam, Shillong has declined in importance; but it is still the summer residence of the government and the headquarters of the district.


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