Moderate cover wear, damp stains along top and fore-edges covers (visible mainly along edges paste down endpapers) , pinholes visible along inside hinges, front and back free endpapers heavily browned, front inside hinge starting with prelims partially detached along upper hinge, some widely scattered browning of (mostly margins) text (plates clean) . ; 14 x 22 cm.; pg. xxiv, 232; Reasonably bright gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Preface, introduction by Sir Charles Lyall, appendixes, list of 23 illustrations (including frontis & 9 in color) , folding map. "This book is an attempt to give a systematic account of the Khasi people [located in the Khasi and Jaintia Hills district of Assam], their manners and customs, their ethnological affinities, their laws and institutions, their religious beliefs, their folk-lore, their theories as to their origin, and their language. "

Anthropology India Assam Khasis