Abstract
“MEGHALAYA” is the name given by Dr. Chatterjee to that isolated block of peninsular India which sticks out westwards like a promontory from the Naga Hills into the plain of Assam-Bengal. The meaning is ‘abode of cloud’, on the analogy of Himalaya, ‘abode of snow’. Although the “Khasi and Jaintia Hills”, as the name appears on maps, are connected by a high ridge with the Naga Hills, they form no part of them, being very much older.
Le plateau de Meghalaya (Garo-Khasi-Jaintia):
étude géographique d'une région naturelle de l'Inde. Par Dr. Shiba Prasad Chatterjee. Pp. 170. (Paris: Les Presses modernes; London: The Bibliophile, 1936.) 10s. 6d. net.
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Le plateau de Meghalaya (Garo-Khasi-Jaintia). Nature 139, 489 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139489b0
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