India - Meghalaya Report on Successions to Siemships in the Khasi States
India - Meghalaya Report on Successions to Siemships in the Khasi States by Captain D. Herbert, Indian Army, Deputy Commissioner, Khasi and Jaintia Hills. Shillong: Assam Secretariat Printing Office, 1903. Folio (32.5 x 19cm), original printed boards, rebacked and recornered, [2] iv 127 pp., 8 folding genealogical tables (counted in pagination), covers marked, wear to fore edges of boards, variable browning, title-page and final leaf heavily washed, title-page also with small hole not affecting text, small stipple of worming to foot of gutter throughout, marginal repair to pp. 1/2, closed tear in pp. 11/12 Qty: (1) Note: First edition, specified 'confidential' on the title-page, perhaps one of 100 copies according to the printer's slug on the final page, no other copy traced in libraries or in commerce (such records as do exist appearing to pertain to a 1991 facsimile reprint published by the government of Meghalaya's directorate of arts and culture). In Khasi culture, eligibility to hold the office of siem (ruler) is passed down by matrilineal descent, though the office-holder is male. The power of the siem is not absolute, with authority dispersed among various ministers, clan chiefs, elders and other figures, and in the case of Khyrim state a high priestess (ka siem-sad).
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India - Meghalaya Report on Successions to Siemships in the Khasi States by Captain D. Herbert, Indian Army, Deputy Commissioner, Khasi and Jaintia Hills. Shillong: Assam Secretariat Printing Office, 1903. Folio (32.5 x 19cm), original printed boards, rebacked and recornered, [2] iv 127 pp., 8 folding genealogical tables (counted in pagination), covers marked, wear to fore edges of boards, variable browning, title-page and final leaf heavily washed, title-page also with small hole not affecting text, small stipple of worming to foot of gutter throughout, marginal repair to pp. 1/2, closed tear in pp. 11/12 Qty: (1) Note: First edition, specified 'confidential' on the title-page, perhaps one of 100 copies according to the printer's slug on the final page, no other copy traced in libraries or in commerce (such records as do exist appearing to pertain to a 1991 facsimile reprint published by the government of Meghalaya's directorate of arts and culture). In Khasi culture, eligibility to hold the office of siem (ruler) is passed down by matrilineal descent, though the office-holder is male. The power of the siem is not absolute, with authority dispersed among various ministers, clan chiefs, elders and other figures, and in the case of Khyrim state a high priestess (ka siem-sad).
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