Decolonization begins at home
- Seminar
- 750, Feb, 2022: p.25-29
SHILLONG, the capital of Meghalaya, with its colonial history, is no stranger to looking back at the past. A former hill station, the city was made a civil station and a sanatorium for British officers in 1864, and it was dubbed the ‘Scotland of the East’ for its weather and hilly homeliness. This identity of Shillong as a colonial town, often described in Khasi, one of the indigenous languages spoken in the state, as ki por phareng or the time of the British, is something that many people from the city sometimes remember quite fondly as a time that was better than the present. – Reproduced