Assam and Related Topics

Guwahati

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The smallest inhabited riverine island in the world, Peacock Island, on the Brahmaputra river

Multi Level Car Parking Facility operated by Assam State Transport Corporation (ASTC) situated at Paltanbazar, Guwahati

Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport

Buses standing at Rupnath Brahma Inter-State Bus Terminal (ISBT), Guwahati

One-Horned Rhino Statue at Indira Gandhi Stadium

Guwahati (, ; formerly rendered Gauhati, ) is the biggest city of the Indian state of Assam and also the largest metropolis in northeastern India.

Northeast India

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Easternmost region of India representing both a geographic and political administrative division of the country.

Brahmaputra Valley and Eastern Himalaya in Northeast India

Asiatic Buffalo at Kaziranga National Park

One-horned rhinoceros at Kaziranga National Park

Inside Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport airport (Guwahati, Assam)

Maharaja Bir Bikram Manikya Agartala airport (Tripura)

The Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project will provide sea access to Northeastern states of India through Myanmar

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<center>Students performing traditional dance at Jorethang (Sikkim)</center>

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It comprises eight states – Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim.

Ahom kingdom

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The king on the elephant with the fourfold division of the army

Siva Singha and Ambika Devi in Court with courtier, pundits and artisans

Coinage of Gadadhara Singha (1681-1696), Ahom Kingdom

Coinage of king Gaurinatha Singha (1780-1796), Ahom Kingdom

Musicians, dancers and the subjects celebrating coronation of the King.

The Ahom kingdom (, 1228–1826) was a late medieval kingdom in the Brahmaputra Valley in Assam.

West Bengal

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West Bengal (, Bengali: Poshchim Bongo,, abbr.

Coin of the King Shashanka, who created the first separate political entity in Bengal, called the Gauda Kingdom

The Pala Empire was an imperial power during the Late Classical period on the Indian subcontinent, which originated in the region of Bengal.

Firoz Minar at Gauḍa was built during the Bengal Sultanate.

Subhas Chandra Bose, he was a leading freedom fighter of India

The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999.

Many areas remain flooded during the heavy rains brought by a monsoon.

A hut in a village in the Hooghly district

The Grand Hotel in Kolkata. Tourism, especially from Bangladesh, is an important part of West Bengal's economy.

Freshly sown saplings of rice in a paddy; in the background are stacks of jute sticks.

Satyajit Ray, a pioneer in Bengali cinema along with Ravi Sankar.

Panchchura Temple in Bishnupur, one of the older examples of the terracotta arts of India.

Jamdani Sari of Bangladesh is very popular in West Bengal.

Salt Lake Stadium / Vivekananda Yuva Bharati Krirangan, Kolkata

Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport is a hub for flights to and from Bangladesh, East Asia, Nepal, Bhutan and north-east India.

Kolkata Metro, India's first metro rail system

University of Calcutta, the oldest public university of India.

The front entrance to the academic block of NUJS, Kolkata.

Prajna Bhavan, housing the School of Mathematical Sciences and School of RKMVU.

It also borders the Indian states of Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar, Sikkim and Assam.

Assamese language

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The proto-languages of the eastern Magadhan languages. Kamarupi Prakrit corresponds to ?proto-Kamarupa here, a hitherto un-reconstructed proto-language. proto-Kamata began to innovate unique features in the period 1250-1550 CE.

Silver coin issued during the reign of Rudra Singha in Sanskrit with Assamese letters.

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One of the consonants of Assamese script.

Assamese, also Asamiya ( অসমীয়া), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken mainly in the northeast Indian state of Assam, where it is an official language.

Arunachal Pradesh

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State in Northeastern India.

A 1936 map of Tibet by Survey of India, showing the McMahon Line

Tawang Monastery in Arunachal Pradesh, is the largest monastery in India and second-largest in the world after the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet. It is one of the few monasteries of Tibetan Buddhism that have remained protected from Mao's Cultural Revolution without any damage.

A kettle lake at Se La in Tawang district.

A view from Bhalukpong, a small town by the southern reaches of the Himalayas.

Buddhism is practised by 12% of the population. Shown here is a statue of the Buddha in Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh.

The road from Tinsukia to Parshuram Kund

NIT Arunachal Pradesh temporary campus in Yupia

It borders the states of Assam and Nagaland to the south.

Tripura

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State in northeastern India.

Neermahal Palace is the royal palace built by Bir Bikram Kishore Debbarman of the Kingdom of Tripura.

Queen Kanchan Prabha Devi who signed the instrument of accession to India as president of the Council of Regency.

Rice is grown on Tripura's alluvial plains, which include lungas, the narrow valleys that are found mainly in the west of the state.

Ujjayanta Palace, built in the 19th century as a replacement for a former royal palace destroyed in an earthquake, was used until 2011 as the meeting place of Tripura's State Legislative Assembly.

Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council, pictured, encompasses much of the state

Rice is the major crop in Tripura and accounts for 91 percent of the land under cultivation.

The border post between Bangladesh and India in Akhaura

Classrooms built of bamboo in a school. In 2010–11, Tripura had 4,455 schools run by the state government or private organisations. Instruction is mainly in English or Bengali.

Tripuri children preparing for a dance performance.

A Tripuri girl in her traditional attire

East Pakistan refugees (since Bangladesh was not formed yet) coming to Tripura during Bangladesh liberation war.

Durga Puja is the major festival of Tripura

A couple in traditional Tripuri costume.

Tripura girls in their traditional attire

The third-smallest state in the country, it covers 10491.69 km2 and is bordered by Bangladesh to the north, south, and west, and the Indian states of Assam and Mizoram to the east.

Meghalaya

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State in northeastern India.

Laitmawsiang landscape, wrapped in fog. Meghalaya is mountainous, and it is the rainiest state of India. The word Meghalaya means, "abode of the clouds".

Tea Plantation in Meghalaya, on the way to Shillong

An aerial view of the state capital, Shillong.

Indian Institute of Management, Shillong Campus

North-Eastern Hill University Campus, Mawlai, Shillong

Autonomous District Councils in Northeast India

View of MCL Cement plant, Thangskai, P.O. Lumshnong, Jaintia Hills

Meghalaya has abundant but undeveloped hydroelectric resources. Above is Mawphlang hydroelectric dam reservoir.

Double-Decker Living root bridge, Nongriat village.

Jhum cultivation, or cut-and-burn shift farming, in Nokrek Biosphere Reserve of Meghalaya.

State Highway 5 near Cherapunjee, Meghalaya

A double-decker living root bridge in Nongriat, Meghalaya

Shillong Golf Course, one of the oldest golf courses of India

Meghalaya has many limestone caves. Above are in Jaintia Hills

Meghalaya was formed by carving out two districts from the state of Assam: the United Khasi Hills and Jaintia Hills, and the Garo Hills on 21 January 1972.

Geopolitical, cultural and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal, predominantly covering present-day Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal.

On a clear day, the snowy peaks of the Himalayas in Nepal and Sikkim can be seen from northern Bangladesh and Darjeeling district of West Bengal

A 2015 census of Sundarbans Bengal tigers found 106 in Bangladesh and 76 in West Bengal.

Inscriptions on the Adina Mosque proclaim the builder Sikandar Shah as "the wisest, the most just, the most perfect and most liberal of the Sultans of Arabia, Persia and India."

A woman in Dhaka clad in fine Bengali muslin, 18th century.

The Battle of Plassey in 1757 ushered British rule

The former royal palace of Hill Tippera in Agartala

Shaheed Minar in Dhaka commemorates the 1952 Language Movement

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman led Bengali's decade long independence struggle including the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971

Bangabhaban (the House of Bengal) is the official residence of the president of Bangladesh

Writers' Building, the official seat of the Government of West Bengal

Biman Bangladesh Airlines is the largest airline based in the Bengal region

New Mooring Terminal, Port of Chittagong

The strategically important city of Chittagong is home to the busiest port on the Bay of Bengal

A silver coin with Proto-Bengali script, 9th century

Rabindranath Tagore, known as the Bengali Shakespeare, being hosted at the Parliament of Iran in the 1930s

Bangladeshi paintings on sale at an art gallery in Dhaka

Bungalows originated from Bengali architecture

A sculpture on Fazlur Rahman Khan at the Sears Tower in the United States

A Baul musician. The Baul ballads of Bengal are classified by UNESCO as humanity's intangible cultural heritage

A mustard and date palm farm in West Bengal

Kanchenjunga from Singalila National Park, West Bengal

Gangaridai in Ptolemy's map, 1st century

At its greatest extent, the Bengal Sultanate's realm and protectorates stretched from Jaunpur in North India in the west to Tripura and Arakan in the east

Colonial Eastern Bengal and Assam, early 20th century

Flag of the Bengal Subah (15-18th Century)

Flag of Bengal Presidency, under British rule

Flag of Bangladesh during Bangladesh Liberation War and after

Today, Bengal is divided between Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal; the historical region encompassed the modern-day states of Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, and Assam, among others in India, and some parts of Myanmar or Burma (Rakhine State).