Death of history: Is it too late to save Meghalaya’s Wadagokgre ASI site?

Phulbari: A region that should have been Meghalaya’s pride is fast being transformed into an unrecognisable quagmire thanks to the greed of a few. Wadagokgre is and will always remain important to the people of the state and remains one of few Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) approved sites. It is the site of a lost kingdom that lived along the banks of the mighty Brahmaputra.

The ASI had taken up excavation in the area and discovered it was one of the biggest cities and a religious centre cast out of the River Brahmaputra in the fourth century A.D.

The excavation has brought to light that Wadagokgre township was sprawling with Buddhism and Hinduism, and also a combination of both, which is widely practised in the area.