"Shillong — the capital city of Meghalaya — has been a capital city since its inception. In the course of its over-a-century old history it has attained the status of a cosmopolitan city with its own culture."
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Nikhlesh Kumar, in Survey of Research in Sociology and Social Anthropology in North-East India, Daya Books, 1 January 1999, p. 7
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