Portal:Assam

Topics Culture Geography Health History Mathematics Nature People Philosophy Religion Society Technology Assam ([æˈsæm], <phonos file="Assam.ogg">pronunciation</phonos>; Assamese: অসম Ôxôm, /ɔxɔm/) is a northeastern state of India. Its capital is Dispur, located within the municipal area of Guwahati city. Located south of the eastern Himalayas, Assam comprises the Brahmaputra and the Barak river valleys along with the Karbi Anglong and the North Cachar Hills with an area of 30,285 square miles (78,438 km²). Assam is surrounded by six of the other Seven Sister States: Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura and Meghalaya. Geographically Assam and these states are connected to the rest of India via a narrow strip of land in West Bengal called the Siliguri Corridor or "Chicken's Neck". Assam shares international borders with Bhutan and Bangladesh; and cultures, peoples and climate with South-East Asia – important elements in India’s Look East policy. Assam became a part of the British India after the British occupied the region following the First Anglo-Burmese War of 1824–1826. (more)Template:/box-footer Mājuli or Majoli (Pron: ˈmʌʤʊlɪ) (Assamese: মাজুলী) is a large river island in the Brahmaputra river, in Assam, India. Mājuli had a total area of 1,250 square kilometres (483 sq mi), but having lost significantly to erosion it has an area of only 421.65 square kilometres (163 sq mi) in 2001. Majuli has shrunk as the river surrounding it has grown. The island is formed by the Brahmaputra river in the south and the Kherkutia Xuti, an anabranch of the Brahmaputra, joined by the Subansiri River in the north. Mājuli island is accessible by ferries from the City of Jorhat. The island is about 200 kilometres east from the state's largest city —Guwahati. The island was formed due to course changes by the river Brahmaputra and its tributaries, mainly the Lohit. Mājuli is also the abode of the Assamese neo-Vaisnavite culture. (more...) A view of sunset on the river Brahmaputra from Dibrugarh 8.... that there are 23 notified Scheduled Tribes (ST) in Assam? 9.... that the state song O Mur Apunar Dex was written by Lakshminath Bezbaruah and attuned by Kamala Prasad Agarwala. It was first published in 1909 in an Assamese magazine named Bahi ("flute")? 10.. that the Ledo Road or Stilwell Road was built during World War II so that the Western Allies could supply the Chinese as an alternative to the Burma Road which had been cut by the Japanese in 1942? 11.. that the Kaziranga Proposed Reserve Forest was created in 1905 to save the rhinoceros after visited the Kaziranga area Baroness Mary Victoria Leiter Curzon, wife of Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India in 1904? 12.. that the Paik system was a type of corvee labour system on which the Ahom kingdom of medieval Assam was based? 13.. that Ajan Fakir was a Sufi Syed, poet, Muslim preacher and saint who came from Baghdad to settle in the Sibsagar area of Assam in the north-eastern part of India. His actual name was Hazarat Shah Syed Mainuddin? 14.. that Buranji (history of Assam) means "a store that teaches the ignorant" (in the Ahom language: bu ignorant person; ran teach; ji store)? 15.. that during Saraighat war Assamese general Lachit Borphukan beheaded his own uncle, when he neglected in his work? Template:/box-header Template:/WikiProjects Template:/box-footer GS Road, the main commercial hub of Guwahati at night The following Wikimedia sister projects provide more on this subject: References What are portals? List of portals Featured portals