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Assam, the only state in the north-eastern region with vast natural and human resources and so with great potential in growth, is today far behind most other states in agriculture and industry, in infrastructure and connectivity, in higher education, especially in science and technology, and in that vial area of employment generation. And yet the state's growth rate at the time of independence was, in spite of her neglect under British rule, was much higher than ...
At five thousand feet in the heart of the Khasi hills the British created a hill station, the product of their imperial imagination, that was to become, as one civil servant phrased it, “as near a chip of England that could be conceived outside the British Isles.†In this British enclave, in the midst of tribal territory ruled by elected chiefs, was their seat of authority, the Government House, designed, built and nurtured to complete that illusion. The ...