This book offers the first comprehensive exploration of the built heritage of the Khasi Hills across a transformative two-hundred-year period. It examines architecture as a living expression of Khasi society, culture, environment and identity, and as a historical text that reveals the changing relationship between people, landscape, belief systems, technology and social life. \n\nFrom indigenous building traditions and ling Sad to the impact of colonial rule, missionary activity, modern education, new towns and institutions, and the increasing use of new materials in the twentieth century, the book traces continuity and change. It highlights indigenous creativity and resilience alongside external influences, loss and survival, and calls for the preservation of the architectural memory of the Khasi Hills as an essential part of Meghalayas historical and cultural inheritance.'