A report on Assam

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

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

People gathered at Kamakhya Temple for the Ambubachi Mela

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 image represent's Dimaraji proposed state map

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

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

State in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys.

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Jorhat district

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Jorhat (pron: ˈʤɔ:(r)ˌhɑ:t) is an administrative district of the Indian state of Assam situated in the central part of the Brahmaputra Valley.

Statue of Tiwa King - Jongal Balahu from Jongal Balahu Garh, Nagaon, Assam

Tiwa people (India)

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Tiwa is an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the states of Assam and Meghalaya in northeastern India.

Barpeta district

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Barpeta district {Pron:bə(r)ˈpeɪtə or bə(r)ˈpi:tə} is an administrative district in the state of Assam in India.

"Davaka" (Brahmi script: Gupta_allahabad_dd.svgGupta_allahabad_v.svgGupta_allahabad_k.svg) in the Allahabad Pillar inscription

Davaka kingdom

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Davaka was a kingdom of ancient Indian subcontinent, located in current central region of Assam state.

Garhgaon

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Gargaon (Pron:/gɑ:ˈgɑ̃ʊ/) is a town in Assam, India and was the capital of the Ahom kingdom for many years.

The empire at its greatest extent in c. 1700 under Aurangzeb ((r. 1658 – 1707))

Mughal Empire

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Early-modern empire that controlled much of South Asia between the 16th and 19th centuries.

Akbar holds a religious assembly of different faiths in the Ibadat Khana in Fatehpur Sikri.

Group portrait of Mughal rulers, from Babur to Aurangzeb, with the Mughal ancestor Timur seated in the middle. On the left: Shah Jahan, Akbar and Babur, with Abu Sa'id of Samarkand and Timur's son, Miran Shah. On the right: Aurangzeb, Jahangir and Humayun, and two of Timur's other offspring Umar Shaykh and Muhammad Sultan. Created c. 1707–12

Coin of Aurangzeb, minted in Kabul, dated 1691/2

Miniature painting - Portrait of an Old Mughal Courtier Wearing Muslin

Muslim Lady Reclining or An Indian Girl with a Hookah, painted in Dacca, 18th century

Ruins of the Great Caravanserai in Dhaka.

Ghulam Hamdani Mushafi, the poet first believed to have coined the name "Urdu" around 1780 AD for a language that went by a multiplicity of names before his time.

Mir Taqi Mir, an Urdu poet of the 18th century Mughal Empire

Badshahi Mosque, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

Buland Darwaza in Fatehpur Sikiri, Agra, India

Lalbagh Fort aerial view in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Shalimar Bagh in Srinagar, Kashmir, India

Illustration by the 17th-century Mughal artist Ustad Mansur

"Alexander Visits the Sage Plato in His Mountain Cave"; illustration by the 16th-century Indian artist Basawan, in a folio from a quintet of the 13th-century Indian poet Amir Khusrau Dihlavi

Folio from Farhang-i-Jahangiri, a Persian dictionary compiled during the Mughal era.

For some two hundred years, the empire stretched from the outer fringes of the Indus river basin in the west, northern Afghanistan in the northwest, and Kashmir in the north, to the highlands of present-day Assam and Bangladesh in the east, and the uplands of the Deccan plateau in south India.

Gauhati University

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Gauhati University Institute of Science and Technology (GUIST)

Entrance to Dr. H.K Baruah Regional Botanical Resource Centre

Gauhati University, also known as GU, is a collegiate public state university located in Guwahati, Assam, India.

Shorea robusta

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Species of tree in the family Dipterocarpaceae.

Queen Mahamāyā giving birth to the Buddha

Sal forest in winter at Gazipur, Bangladesh

Sal trunk constricted by a ficus tree at Jayanti

New leaves with flower buds West Bengal, India

Sal Tree in full bloom at Gazipur, Bangladesh

Salabhanjika or "sal tree maiden", Hoysala sculpture, Belur, Karnataka

In India, it extends from Chhattisgarh, Assam, Bengal, Odisha and Jharkhand west to the Shivalik Hills in Haryana, east of the Yamuna.

Gopinath Bordoloi

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Politician and Indian independence activist who served as the first Chief Minister of Assam.

Due to his unselfish dedication towards Assam and its people, the then Governor of Assam Jayram Das Doulatram conferred him with the title "Lokapriya" (loved by all).

Kalika Purana

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One of the eighteen minor Puranas (Upapurana) in the Shaktism tradition of Hinduism.

The text was likely composed in Assam or Cooch Behar