A report on Assam and Tripura

Map of Eastern Bengal and Assam during 1907–1909

A map of the British Indian Empire in 1909 during the partition of Bengal (1905–1911), showing British India in two shades of pink (coral and pale) and the princely states in yellow. The Assam Province (initially as the Province of Eastern Bengal and Assam) can be seen towards the north-eastern side of India.

Showing a historical incident at Kanaklata Udyan, Tezpur

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.

Blooming of Kopou Orchid marks the beginning of the festive season of Bihu in Assam.

People gathered at Kamakhya Temple for the Ambubachi Mela

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.

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

1. Tinskia 2. Dibrugarh 3. Dhemaji 4. Charaideo 5. Sivasagar 6.Lakhimpur 7. Majuli 8. Jorhat 9. Biswanath 10. Golaghat 11. Karbi Anglong 12. Sonitpur 13. Nagaon 14. Hojai 15. Karbi Anglong West 16. Dima Hasao 17. Cachar 18. Hailakandi 19. Karimganj 20. Morigaon 21. Udalguri 22. Darrang 23. Kamrup Metro 24. Baksa 25. Nalbari 26. Kamrup 27. Barpeta 28. Chirang 29. Bongaigaon 30. Goalpara 31. Kokrajhar 32. Dhubri 33. South Salmara Mankachar 34. Bajali

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

The image represent's Dimaraji proposed state map

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.

A tea garden in Assam: tea is grown at elevations near sea level, giving it a malty sweetness and an earthy flavor, as opposed to the more floral aroma of highland (e.g. Darjeeling, Taiwanese) teas

Tripura girls in their traditional attire

Assamese women busy planting paddy seedlings in their agricultural field in Pahukata village in the Nagaon district of Assam

A group of 'Husori' for the occasion of Assamese Bohag Bihu in their traditional attire.

Girl in traditional Mekhela chador dress with a Dhol wrapped with Gamosa

A decorative Assamese Jaapi laid over a Gamosa

Mising girls dancing during Ali Ai Ligang (Spring Festival)

Actors of Abinaswar Gosthi performs the play "Surjya Mandirot Surjyasta" directed by Dipok Borah

An ethnic preparation of Ghost chili chicken curry of Assam

Lakshminath Bezbaroa, one of the foremost figures of Assamese literature.

Imaginary portrait of Srimanta Sankardeva by Bishnu Prasad Rabha

School girls in the classroom, Lakhiganj High School, Assam

National Institute of Technology, Silchar

Jorhat Engineering College of Assam Science and Technology University

Statue of Bishnu Prasad Rabha, Jyoti Prasad Agarwala and Phani Sarma at District Library, Guwahati.

A folio from the Hastividyarnava manuscript

<center>A page of manuscript painting from Assam; The medieval painters used locally manufactured painting materials such as the colours of hangool and haital and papers manufactured from aloewood bark</center>

Bell metal made sorai and sophura are important parts of culture

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.

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The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur to the east; Meghalaya, Tripura, Mizoram and Bangladesh to the south; and West Bengal to the west via the Siliguri Corridor, a 22 km wide strip of land that connects the state to the rest of India.

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Bengal

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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).

Bengali peoples also have a significant presence in the Indian states of Tripura, Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Uttarakhand, and others.

Mizoram

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State in Northeast India, with Aizawl as its seat of government and capital city.

One of the many battles between British troops and British-aligned tribes of Mizoram against a Lusei clan in Mizoram. This sketch is by Lieutenant Cole in 1889 titled "Looshai expedition".

Mizoram Peace Accord was signed in June 1986. The Accord granted political freedoms by making Mizoram a full state of India, and included infrastructure provisions such as a High Court and establishment of Mizoram University (shown).

Mizoram produces over 7 million tonnes of Anthurium (shown), supplying the domestic market as well as exporting it to UAE, UK and Japan. The majority of producers and income earners from this business are Mizoram women.

Darkhuang, Zamluang or jamluang – a traditional musical instrument found in Mizoram.Other instruments include khuang (drum), dar (cymbals), as well as bamboo-based phenglawng, tuium and tawtawrawt.

Within India's northeast region, it is the southernmost landlocked state, sharing borders with three of the Seven Sister States, namely Tripura, Assam and Manipur.

Prevailing religions of the British Indian Empire (1901)

Partition of India

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The partition of India in 1947 divided British India into two independent dominions: India and Pakistan.

British Indian Empire in The Imperial Gazetteer of India, 1909. British India is shaded pink, the princely states yellow.

Indian medical orderlies attending to wounded soldiers with the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force in Mesopotamia during World War I

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (seated in the carriage, on the right, eyes downcast, with black flat-top hat) receives a big welcome in Karachi in 1916 after his return to India from South Africa

Muhammad Ali Jinnah, seated, third from the left, was a supporter of the Lucknow Pact, which, in 1916, ended the three-way rift between the Extremists, the Moderates and the League

Jawaharlal Nehru, Sarojini Naidu, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, and Maulana Azad at the 1940 Ramgarh session of the Congress in which Azad was elected president for the second time

Chaudhari Khaliquzzaman (left) seconding the 1940 Lahore Resolution of the All-India Muslim League with Jinnah (right) presiding, and Liaquat Ali Khan centre

The Partition of India: green regions were all part of Pakistan by 1948, and orange ones part of India. The darker-shaded regions represent the Punjab and Bengal provinces partitioned by the Radcliffe Line. The grey areas represent some of the key princely states that were eventually integrated into India or Pakistan.

Mountbatten with a countdown calendar to the Transfer of Power in the background

A refugee special train at Ambala Station during the partition of India

A crowd of Muslims at the Old Fort (Purana Qila) in Delhi, which had been converted into a vast camp for Muslim refugees waiting to be transported to Pakistan. Manchester Guardian, 27 September 1947.

Four nations (India, Pakistan, Dominion of Ceylon, and Union of Burma) that gained independence in 1947 and 1948

1909 Percentage of Sikhs, Buddhists, and Jains.

The fate of North-West Frontier Province and Sylhet district of Assam was to be decided by a referendum.

Hindus fleeing from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) were settled across Eastern, Central and Northeastern India, many ending up in neighbouring Indian states such as West Bengal, Assam, and Tripura.

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>Sela Pass, Tawang (Arunachal Pradesh)</center>

<center>Bhalukpong, Arunachal Pradesh</center>

<center>Nohkalikai Falls, Cherrapunji, Meghalaya </center>

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<center>Women selling fruits in Senapati, Manipur</center>

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<center>Nyokum festival of Nyishi tribe (Arunachal Pradesh)</center>

<center>Bagurumba dance of Bodo tribe (Assam)</center>

<center>Wangala dance of Garo tribe (Assam, Meghalaya)</center>

<center>Dance of Angami tribe (Nagaland)</center>

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

<center>Tea garden in Darrang, Assam</center>

<center>Oil palm plantation in Mizoram</center>

<center>Terrace farming in Nagaland</center>

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

The ancient political divisions of the Ganges delta.

Bengalis

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Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group originating from and culturally affiliated with the Bengal region of South Asia.

Parts of the Charyapada, a collection of ancient Buddhist hymns which mention the Bengalis, in display at the Rajshahi College Library.

Depiction of Gangaridai on a map by 11th-century polymath Ptolemy.

Atiśa is recognised as one of the greatest figures of classical Buddhism, having inspired Buddhist thought from Tibet to Sumatra.

Ghazi Pir is thought to have lived in the Sundarbans some time between the 12th to 13th century.

15th-century Portuguese painting of "Bengalis".

The Bengali artillery at the Battle of Plassey in 1757.

A painting by Shaikh Muhammad Amir of Karraya displaying a syce of Bengal holding two carriage horses.

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

W.C. Bonnerjee, co-founder and first president of Indian National Congress.

Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani, the co-founder and inaugural president of the Awami League.

Dean Mahomed is credited for introducing shampoo to the Europeans.

Large numbers of Bengalis have settled and established themselves in Banglatown.

I'tisam-ud-Din was the first educated Bengali and South Asian to have travelled to Europe.

Regional dialects form one of the determiners to the social stratification of Bengalis.

Bengali schoolboys in the port city of Chittagong.

A sculpture of the Nawab of Bengal's Royal Peacock Barge in Murshidabad.

A Bengali man sporting a simple black sherwani.

Artistes from Purulia district of West Bengal performs Chhau dance

Satyajit Ray, eminent film director who has made Bengali films popular all over the world

Gitanjali intro featuring its author Rabindranath Tagore

The application of mehndi onto one's hand hosts a ceremony of itself during Bengali wedding seasons.

A Bengali groom partaking in a supplication during his wedding.

Qazi Azizul Haque is recognised for his contributions to the development of modern fingerprint biometrics, a discovery of worldwide importance.

Meghnad Saha, J C Bose, J C Ghosh, Snehamoy Dutt, S N Bose, D M Bose, N R Sen, J N Mukherjee, N C Nag

A sculpture honoring Fazlur Khan at the Willis Tower

A lathi khela event taking place in Tangail.

A Nouka Baich competition taking place in the monsoon season.

Mohammed Salim, the first South Asian footballer to play for a foreign club. Due to playing in bare feet, he is having them bandaged by Jimmy McMenemy in 1936.

Cricketer Shakib Al Hasan is currently crowned the world's best all-rounder in all formats for ODI cricket, and one of the greatest of all times.

The current population is divided between the independent country Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura and parts of Assam, Meghalaya and Manipur.

Bengali language

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Indo-Aryan language native to the Bengal region of South Asia.

Present-day distribution of Indo-European languages in Eurasia. Bengali belongs to easternmost spoken Indo-European language family

Indo- Iranian language family, Bengali marked yellow

The descent of proto-Gauda, the ancestor of the modern Bengali language, from the proto-Gauda-Kamarupa line of the proto-Magadhan(Magadhi Prakrit).

Silver coin of Maharaj Gaudeshwar Danujmardandev of Deva dynasty, circa 1417

Silver coin with proto-Bengali script, Harikela Kingdom, circa 9th–13th century

A mural with Bengali letters in Hamtramck-Detroit, United States

An example of handwritten Bengali. Part of a poem written in Bengali (and with its English translation below each Bengali paragraph) by Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore in 1926 in Hungary

An 1855 Dobhashi manuscript of Halat-un-Nabi written by Sadeq Ali using the Sylheti Nagri script.

A map of Bengal (and some districts of Assam and Jharkhand) which shows the dialects of the Bengali language.
Eastern Bengali Manbhumi dialect
Varendri dialect Rarhi dialect
Sundarbani dialect
Rajbanshi dialect/language*
Chittagonian dialect/language*
Sylheti dialect/language*
(those marked with an asterisk * are sometimes considered dialects or sometimes as separate languages)

Within India, Bengali is the official language of the states of West Bengal, Tripura and the Barak Valley region of the state of Assam.

Bengali Hindus

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Devi Durga Sculpture by Sandalwood. Found in Murshidabad, West Bengal. Now kept in Indian Museum, Kolkata.

Dancing Ganesha sculpture from North Bengal, 11th century CE, Asian Art Museum of Berlin (Dahlem).

Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, the founder of Gaudiya Vaishnavism

Swami Vivekananda was a leading figure of the Bengal Renaissance Vivekananda at the Parliament of the World's Religions (1893)

Signature dish of Bengali: Fish And Rice.

Savitri-Satyavan story on Kalighat Painting, 3rd quarter of the 19th century.

Durga Puja, the largest festival of Bengali Hindus

Rath Yatra at Dhamrai in Dhaka district, Bangladesh

The Bengali Hindu diaspora celebrate Durga Puja all over the world.

Ichhai Ghosher Deul at Gourangapur in Paschim Bardhaman, West Bengal. (India)

Dhakeshwari Temple in Dhaka. (Bangladesh)

Baro-chala Buro Shiva temple at Jalshara in Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal. (India)

Devi Manasa with her husband Jaratkaru & son Astik flanked by Nagas, 11th century Pala period statue from Bengal

Bengali Hindus (বাঙ্গালী হিন্দু/বাঙালি হিন্দু) are an ethnoreligious population who make up the majority in the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Jharkhand, and Assam's Barak Valley region.

The Raj, however, carried out some restructuring, and carved out Bengali Hindu majority districts like Manbhum, Singbhum, Santal Pargana and Purnia awarding them to Bihar and others like Cachar that were awarded to Assam, which effectively made the Bengali Hindus a minority in the united province of Bengal.

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.

This highway connects Guwahati with Silchar in Barak Valley Assam and further connecting the city to the states of Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura.

Indian National Congress

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Political party in India with widespread roots.

First session of Indian National Congress, Bombay, 28–31 December 1885

Bal Gangadhar Tilak speaking in 1907 as the Party split into moderates and extremists. Seated at the table is Aurobindo Ghosh and to his right (in the chair) is G. S. Khaparde, both allies of Tilak.

Subhas Chandra Bose served as president of the Congress during 1938–39

Azad, Patel and Gandhi at an AICC meeting in Bombay, 1940

Rajiv Gandhi addressing the Special Session of the United Nations on Disarmament, in New York in June 1988

Flags and posters in support of the Congress party candidate in Mumbai

Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, INC's leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha

Congress Lok Sabha vote percentage all time

Then-Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee during the World Economic Summit 2009 in New Delhi

Manmohan Singh and his wife during the passing out parade at the Platinum Jubilee Course of IMA on 10 December 2007; with foreign gentleman cadets.

Gamal Abdel Nasser, Nehru and Josip Broz Tito, pioneers of the Non-Aligned Movement

National Students' Union of India (NSUI) National Convention Inquilab-1 in Jaipur

Election symbol of Congress (R) party during the period 1971–1977

Subhas Chandra Bose arriving at the 1939 session of the Indian National Congress.

The party got 32.14 per cent of voters in polls held in Punjab and Assam in 1985.

In 1972, her administration granted statehood to Meghalaya, Manipur and Tripura, while the North-East Frontier Agency was declared a union territory and renamed Arunachal Pradesh.

Karimganj district

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Another view of New BG station, Karimganj Junction

Karimganj district is one of the 34 districts of the Indian state of Assam.

It is located in southern Assam and borders Tripura and the Sylhet Division of Bangladesh.