He also translated the Bible into Khasi. (Ajay Aggarwal/HT Photo) Christ stepped into the Khasi-Jaintia foothills in 1813 (Meghalaya was born in 1972) via the Baptists. But the first church was ...

“When my father was sent back home, he took with him the first complete edition of the Bible in Khasi, printed in 1885. He also put an emblem of the rooster on the flyleaf of the Bible and this is ...

He began translating the Bible into the Khasi language, a task which was completed by William Lewis and his successors. Kynpham, who writes in both Khasi and English, and lectures at North-Eastern ...