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'''Shillong''' was the headquarters of [http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V15_260.gif [Khasi and Jaintia Hills ]] District] in [[Assam|Assam Province]] during the British period. It had a Pasteur Institute and was wrecked by an earthquake in 1897.<ref name=Murrays>Murray's Handbook India, Burma and Ceylon 1933</ref> A [[Hill station]] due to its situation and climate, Shillong was summer capital of the Government of [[Eastern Bengal and Assam]]. It was also called "The Scotland of the East," due to its similarity to the Scottish highlands.