Outline of Assam

Assam is the 16th largest, 15th most populous and 26th most literate state of the 29 states of the democratic Republic of India. Assam is at 14th position in life expectancy and 8th in female-to-male sex ratio. Assam is the 21st most media exposed states in India. The Economy of Assam is largely agriculture based with 69% of the population engaged in it. Growth rate of Assam’s income has not kept pace with that of India’s during the Post-British Era; differences increased rapidly since the 1970s.[1] While the Indian economy grew at 6 percent per annum over the period of 1981 to 2000, the same of Assam’s grew only by 3.3 percent.[2]

General reference

Geography

Assam has five national parks (2.51% of State’s geographical area) and 18 wildlife sanctuaries (1.88% of State’s geographical area, including proposed) wildlife sanctuaries.[3][4][5]

National Parks

Wildlife sanctuaries

History

Main article: History of Assam

Administrative divisions

Assam had 27 districts till 15 August 2015 after which the Chief Minister of Assam Tarun Gogoi announced 5 more new districts taking the total no of districts to 32.[6][7]

List of districts along with the district headquarters

Demographics

Main article: People of Assam

Population

District-wise Demographic Characteristics in 2001

Total population of Assam was 26.66 million with 4.91 million households in 2001.[9]

Religion

See also: Islam in Assam, Christianity in Assam

Religion in Assam (2011)[10]

  Hinduism (61.46%)
  Islam (34.22%)
  Christianity (3.73%)
  Buddhism (0.17%)
  Jainism (0.08%)
  Sikhism (0.06%)
  Other or not religious (0.3%)

According to the 2011 census, 61.5% were Hindus, 34.22% were Muslims.[10][11] Christian minorities (3.7%) are found among Scheduled Tribe population. Other religions followed include Jainism (0.1%), Buddhism (0.2%), Sikhism (0.1%) and Animism (amongst Khamti, Phake, Aiton etc. communities).

Languages

7th–8th century specimen of Assamese (Kamrupi) literature

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Languages of Assam in 2001[12][13][14]

  Assamese (48.8%)
  Bengali (27.5%)
  Bodo (4.8%)
  Hindi (5.88%)
  Nepali (2.12%)
  Mishing (1.9%)
  Karbi (1.5%)
  Other (8.5%)

Culture

Main article: Culture of Assam

See also

References

  1. ↑ UNDP 2004 p22-23
  2. ↑ UNDP 2004 p22
  3. ↑ "AREA OF THE NATIONAL PARKS AND WILDLIFE SANCTUARIES IN ASSAM, 2003" (PDF). Chief Conservator of Forest (WL), Assam. Retrieved 2013-06-17.
  4. ↑ "Department of Environment & Forests (Government of Assam)". Assamforest.in. Retrieved 2013-06-17.
  5. ↑ "Important Bird Areas in India - Assam" (PDF). Retrieved 2013-06-17.
  6. ↑ "List of districts of Assam". www.census2011.co.in. Retrieved 2015-11-21.
  7. ↑ "CM Tarun Gogoi announces 5 new districts in Assam on Independence Day | Latest News & Updates at Daily News & Analysis". dna. Retrieved 2015-11-21.
  8. ↑ "Census Population" (PDF), Census of India (Ministry of Finance India), archived (PDF) from the original on 19 December 2008, retrieved 18 December 2008
  9. ↑ Government of Assam 2002–03. "Statistics of Assam". Archived from the original on 7 June 2007. Retrieved 3 June 2007.
  10. 1 2 "Population by religion community - 2011". Census of India, 2011. The Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Archived from the original on 25 August 2015.
  11. ↑ "Census 2011 data rekindles ‘demographic invasion’ fear in Assam".
  12. ↑ "Distribution of the 22 Scheduled Languages". Census of India. Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. 2001. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
  13. ↑ "Census Reference Tables, A-Series - Total Population". Census of India. Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. 2001. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
  14. ↑ Census 2011 Non scheduled languages
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