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24 unusual facts about Assam


2011 Santosh Trophy

The 65th National Football Championship for Santosh Trophy 2010-11 was held in Assam, India, May 6–30, 2011.

352d Special Operations Group

After May 1945 the fighter squadrons were in training, and in June the group's C-47s were sent to Ledo to move road-building equipment.

Adajya

The film, based on Indira Goswami's 'Dontal Haatir Uiye Khuwa Haoda', is set in 1940s Assam.

Azad Maidan riots

The indigenous Bodo community of Assam alleged that the Muslim population is increasing in Assam due to the large influx of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, while the local Muslim community brushed it aside saying that they migrated to Assam during the British Raj.

Boettger's horned toad

Boettger's horned toad, Boettger's spadefoot toad, or pale-shouldered horned toad (Xenophrys boettgeri), is a species of toad found in southern and southeastern China (the northern border runs roughly from Sichuan in the west to Shanxi in the north and Zhejiang in the east) and northeastern India (Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, and Assam).

Borolar Ghor

According to Kappan, “I have found that the culture of my state (Kerala) and Assam were quite similar. So I thought to make a film here.” Sixty per cent of the dialogues in the bilingual film were in Assamese and the remaining in Bengali.

Chiromantis simus

Chiromantis simus (common names: Assam Asian frog, Assam tree frog, Annandale's tree frog, Annandale's pigmy tree frog) is a species of frog in the Rhacophoridae family found in Bangladesh and northeastern India (in Assam, Mizoram, and West Bengal states).

Duttaphrynus cyphosus

Duttaphrynus cyphosus, called also projective-occiputed toad is a species of toad in the Bufonidae family, known from Tibet (China) near the Assam (India) border.

Elections in Assam

Elections in Assam are conducted since 1952 to elect the members of Assam Legislative Assembly and for the members of Lok Sabha.

Fuller's caecilian

Fuller's caecilian (also Kuttal caecilian), Chikila fulleri, is a species of caecilian endemic to India; the type specimen was collected six miles southwest of Silchar in Cachar, Assam, at an altitude of about 100 m above sea level.

Hum Badal Gaye

Hum Badal Gaye is an animated film from Assam and northeast India officially certified and censored by Central Board of Film Certification, India.

Kaloula assamensis

Kaloula assamensis (Assamese balloon frog or Assam narrowmouth toad) is a species of narrow-mouthed frog found in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, and West Bengal in northeastern India.

Liao Yaoxiang

When the 18th Division (Imperial Japanese Army) cut off their retreat route, the New 22nd Division was forced to go through the Kachin Hills and many veterans died of disease, starvation and animal attacks and finally made it back to Ledo, Assam.

Lowitja O'Donoghue

She spent time with the Baptist Church working in Assam, northern India as a nurse relieving missionaries who were taking leave back in Australia.

Malaisemyia

Malaisemyia is a genus of hairy-eyed craneflies (family Pediciidae) from Assam (India), with the exception of M. ornatissima from Myanmar.

Order of Battle of the Chindits

:This Brigade trained as a Chindit Brigade, but was diverted to the main front in Assam and took part in the Battle of Kohima.

Pangsau Pass

The Ledo Road began at Ledo, the railhead, and passed through Lekhapani, Jagun, Jairampur (the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh boundary and beginning of Inner Line), and Nampong before switchbacking steeply upwards through densely forested hills to the pass, 12 km away.

Peristrophe roxburghiana

; also called magenta plant, or lá cẩm in Vietnamese) is a flowering plant in the family Acanthaceae, native to southeastern Asia from Assam south to Sri Lanka and east to mainland Southeast Asia, Java, southern China, and Taiwan.

Prince of Wales tea blend

One Prince of Wales tea, for example, is a blend of "Assam black tea, Ceylon black tea, Gunpowder green tea, Lucky Dragon Hyson green tea, and natural black currant flavoring."

Pulindas

Though clearly associated with the Vindhyan region, the Pulindas are sometimes believed to have had multiple tribal branches that ranged up to the Himalayan region and Assam.

Tom Vallance

He embarked on a career in the tea plantations of Assam but returned after a year suffering from blackwater fever.

Urmila Mahanta

Urmila Mahanta was born to Giridhar Mahanta and Ramala Mahanta in Sonapur, Assam; she has three siblings, Jutika Mahanta, Munmi Mahanta and Munindra Mahanta.

V Force

An American organisation later took over the northernmost areas around Ledo.

Yogini Tantra

Yogini Tantra is a 16th-century tantric text by an unknown author from Assam, India and dedicated to the worship of Hindu goddesses Kali and Kamakhya.


Abdul Matlib Mazumdar

To counter the rising popularity of Muslim League, he successfully organised the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind movement in Assam.

Assam University

Assam University is an institutional signatory to the Global Universities Network for Innovation (GUNI), Barcelona and United Nations Global Compact(UNGC) for its commitment to educational social responsibilities.

Barauni–Guwahati line

In response to the demands of tea planters in Assam for a rail link to Chittagong port, the Assam Bengal Railway started construction of a railway track on the eastern side of Bengal in 1891.

Black softshell turtle

Also, a population of these turtles was identified in the Kachapukhuri pond on Nilachal Hill, next to the Kamakhya Temple temple at Guwahati in Assam.

Bodo Brahma Dharma

Bodo Brahma Dharma was a new religion agitated by Gurudev Kalicharan Brahma in the early 20th century in Dhubri District of Assam among the Bodo people after initiation in the Brahmo faith and the teachings of the Adi Brahmo Parambrahma in 1906 at Kolkatta and assisted by Rupnath Brahma.

Bongaigaon Municipal Board

During 1989, Government of Assam took the decision to create a new district Bongaigaon, carving out some areas of Goalpara and Kokrajhar districts with it's headquarters located at Bongaigaon.

Charaideo

The tombs (Maidams) of Ahom kings and queens at Charaideo hillocks are comparable to the Pyramids of Egypt and are objects of wonder revealing the excellent architecture and skill of the sculptors and masons of Assam of the medieval days.

Colonial Assam

In 1874, the Assam region was separated from the Bengal Presidency, Sylhet was added to it and its status was upgraded to a Chief Commissioner's Province.

Geography of Assam

In the south, the Barak originating in the Barail Range (Assam-Nagaland border), flows through the Cachar district with a 25–30 miles (40–50 km) wide valley and enters Bangladesh with the name Surma.

Guwahati–Lumding section

The Chittagong link had been constructed in response to the demand of the Assam tea planters for a railway link to Chittagong port.

History of Assam

Chief Commissioner's Province (1874–1905): In 1874, the Assam region was separated from the Bengal Presidency, Sylhet was added to it and its status was upgraded to a Chief Commissioner's Province.

History of the University of Dhaka

The Partition of Bengal in 1905 provided the Muslim majority community of East Bengal and Assam with a sphere of influence of their own and raised new hopes for the development of the region and advancement of its people.

Hotel toilet paper folding

Dr. Susan Blackmore, who uses the example of hotel toilet paper folding to illustrate the use of memes, pointed out in the 2006 Darwin Day Lecture before the British Humanist Association that even a remote guesthouse she visited in rural Assam in India folded the first sheet on its rolls of toilet paper.

Human rights issues in Northeast India

Violence broke out between Bodo tribes and Muslim migrant settlers in the Kokrajhar district of Assam on 20 July 2012, leaving at least 45 people dead and approximately 300,000 displaced in the month of July.

Indian Standard Time

In 2014, Chief Minister of Assam Tarun Gogoi started campaigning for another time zone for Assam and other northeastern states of India.

Kalicharan Brahma

He joined a new religion called Brahmo Dharma / Brahmoism Adi Brahmo Samaj faction in Calcutta around 1906, and he is reverentially called Gurudev or Guru Brahma by Bodo people of lower plains of Assam along holy Brahmaputra river.

Kamakhya - Mumbai LTT AC Express

Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi flagged off the first fully air-conditioned Kamakhya-Lokmanya Tilak (T), Mumbai AC Express, at a function held at Kamakhya railway station .

Khudimari

Khudimari is a small village some distance away from the town called Gauripur in the Dhubri district of Assam, one of the seven sister states of northeast India.

Kokrajhar College

Kokrajhar College is an educational institution located in Kokrajhar, Assam, India.

Kunki

Koonki, a trained elephant used to capture wild ones in Assam

Lakhimpur

North Lakhimpur, a city in India and a municipal board in Lakhimpur district in the North Eastern state Assam

Munnawar Khan

Munnawar Khan was sent on a campaign in the Brahmaputra River against the Ahoms in Assam along with the talented Muhammad Saleh Kamboh, they built trade cog sized Dhows some with artillery, archers and musketeers under five Sardars (Admirals), during the Battle of Saraighat unfortunately the Mughal fleet was outnumbered by 3300 Ahom war-canoes.

Naga people

The Naga tribes live in the Indian states of Nagaland, Assam, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh and the northwestern hill tracts of Burma, such as the Naga Self-Administered Zone (formerly in Sagaing Division).

Nilachala Saraswata Sangha

Swami Nigamananda had taken a short retirement from his busy work, left Assam Bangiya Saraswata Matha, Jorhat, (Assam) and came to Puri in 1923.

Nola pumila

It is found in the Indo-Australian tropics, including China (Shanghai), Formosa, Sikkim, Assam, India, Burma, Sulawesi and New Guinea.

One Crazy Ride

The bikers chronicle their attempt to travel from Tawang in west Arunachal to Dong in the east without entering the state of Assam.

Parbatipur railway station

The Assam Behar State Railway started building westward in 1884 and by 1889, Parbatipur was connected with Katihar in Bihar.

Paul Olaf Bodding

He was a celebrated scientist, and he is still well known among the santals living in the states of Jharkand, Bihar and Assam as well as in Bangladesh and the Scandinavian countries.

Phani Bora

Bora contested the 1957 Assam Legislative Assembly election, finish in third place in the Nowgong (SC) constituency with 25,377 votes

Prafulla Chaki

His first assignment was to kill Sir Joseph Bampfylde Fuller (1854-1935), the first Lieutenant Governor of the new province of Eastern Bengal and Assam.

Sanjay Ghose

His book, Sanjoy's Assam, has been used by the 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement, to initiate the anti corruption movement in Assam.

Shakti

A commonly accepted list of Shakti peethas and their famous temple complexes includes: Jwalaji (Himachal), Tara Tarini (Berhampur, Orissa), Katyayani (Chattarpur, Delhi), Kamakhya (Assam), Kali at Kalighat (Kolkata, West Bengal), Naina Devi (Himachal), Guhyeshwari Temple Devi (Kathmandu, Nepal), Vishalakshi Temple (Varanasi).

Slavery in Bhutan

Outside Bhutan proper, various ethnic groups of the Assam Duars including the Mechi were subject to taxation and slaving such that entire villages were abandoned when the British examined the region in 1865.

Supangmung

Chakradhwaj Singha also ordered his Prime Minister Atan Burhagohain, a skilled soldier, military engineer and diplomat to accompany Lachit Borphukan on the campaign to oust the Mughals from Assam.

Tabu Taid

He was born in Ghunasuti Ayengia, a small village of Mishing community in present-day Lakhimpur district in Assam, India in 1 August 1942, father (late) Ubang Taid.

Tabu Taid was born in 1 August 1942 in a remote and economically backward village Ghunasuti Ayengia in Lakhimpur district of Assam.

Temsula Ao

She matriculated from Ridgeway Girls' High School, Golaghat, Assam.

Terhuchu

Terhuchu is a two-player abstract strategy board game from India, and specifically from Assam and Angami.

Vishuva Sankranti

Maha Vishuva Sankranti is similar to the New Year festivals observed elsewhere in India such as Baisakhi (Punjab), Bihu (Assam), Juir Sheetal (Mithila), Naba Barsha (Bengal), Bisu Parba (Tulu Nadu region in Karnataka), Vishu (Kerala), and Puthandu (Tamil Nadu).

Wangala

Wangala (also known as Hundred Drums, Wanna, Wanna Rongchuwa) a harvest festival celebrated by the Garo tribe, who lives in Meghalaya, Assam in India and Greater Mymensingh in Bangladesh.

Zomi Revolutionary Army

Pu K Guite, a Kuki leader from Karbi Anglong (Mikir Hills of Assam), is the founder president of the organization.