A History of Assam c17.6

c17.6

space of a hundred years, but this is very improbable. The place and river names in the hills they inhabit all seem to be Khāsi, and the people themselves have no traditions of any such movement. A peculiar feature of this country is furnished by the curious monoliths, which the Khāsis and Syntengs used to erect in memory of their dead. Similar monoliths are found amongst the Hos and Mundas in Chota Nagpur, who speak dialects belonging to the same family of languages.