Regions of Assam

The Regions of Assam are non-administrative units in the Indian state of Assam with a common historical past. Not all these regions are mutually exclusive.

The Regions

Assam Proper: This is the region that is constituted by the five colonial districts that were originally in the Ahom kingdom. The districts were: Undivided Kamrup district, Darrang, Nagaon, Lakhimpur and Sibsagar.

Goalpara region: This is the region between the Sankosh and the manas rivers on the north bank of the Brahmaputra river, with a corresponding region on the south bank.

Kamrup region: This is the region between the Manas river in the west and the Barnadi river on the east on the north bank of the Brahmaputra river, with a corresponding region on the south bank.

South Assam: The Barak Valley in Assam, south of the Dima Hasao district is often called South Assam.[1] It covers the present-day Cachar, Karimganj and Hailakandi districts, which together formed the erstwhile undivided Cachar district, a part of the Kachari kingdom, that was under the command of Gobinda Chandra.

Notes

  1. ↑ (Tunga 1995, p. 1)

References

  • Dutta, Birendranath (1995). A Study of the Folk Culture of the Goalpara Region of Assam. Guwahati, Assam: University Publication Department, Gauhati University. 
  • Tunga, S. S. (1995). Bengali and Other Related Dialects of South Assam. Delhi: Mittal Publications. Retrieved February 19, 2013. 
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