Khasi musicians and singers from Shillong in north-east India tell me that they are grateful for the Welsh missionaries who in the 1880s brought the Gospel and education to their people.

These Princely States were spread from the 200 states of Kathiawar or a score of states of Rajputana in the west, to the Manipur and a score of Khasi chieftainships in the extreme east, from Kashmir and minute Simla Hill states in the north, the Mysore and Madras province states in the south, a limitless miscellany of hundreds of states of every shape and size.

I first got involved in the environmental movement when I was 12," says Brem Wanbantei Blah Lyngdoh, a representative of the Khasi Tribe in Cherrapunjee, India.