During the last century when the then British Govt. of India took up the administration of the newly acquired Frontier Districts of Khasi and Jaintia Hills of Assam, they faced the language difficulty because they had no pracrtical knowledge of the native languages. To over come the difficulty of understanding the language of the Khasis, who were by far the most numerous and powerful of the North-East frontier tribes, the author of this Volume wrote over hundred years ago, Grammar of the Khasi Language as the guide par excellence for those who had to come everyday into personnal contact of the tribal people during their administrative duties. It is indeed the product of his perserving and painstaking research.
