"The civil station of Shillong was established in 1864 as the administrative centre for a Khasi and Jaintia Hills district. At that time most of its present area was covered with deep forests with Laban — a small village under the United Khasi State of Shillong – nestling on hill slopes."
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Abhik Das Gupta, in Rivers and Riverine Landscape in North East India, Concept Publishing Company, 1 January 2006, p. 118
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