The Regions of Assam are non-administrative units in the Indian state of
Assam
Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...
with a common historical past. Not all these regions are mutually exclusive.
The Regions
Assam Proper region: This is the region that is constituted by the five colonial districts that were originally in the
Ahom kingdom. The districts were: Darrang, Nagaon, Lakhimpur and Sibsagar.
Goalpara region
Goalpara region, largely congruous to the historical undivided Goalpara district, is a region that is associated with the people and culture of Goalpara. It is bounded on the north by Bhutan, on the east by the Kamrup region, in the south by Meg ...
: Former Eastern Rangpur region. This is the region between the Sankosh and the manas rivers on the north bank of the Brahmaputra river, with a corresponding region on the south bank.
Kamrup region
Kamrup is the modern region situated between two rivers, the Manas and the Barnadi in Western Assam, with the same territorial extent as the Colonial and post-Colonial "Undivided Kamrup district". It was the capital region of two of the th ...
: Former Greater Kamrup region. This is the region between the Manas river in the west and the Barnadi river on the east on the north bank of the Brahmaputra river, with a corresponding region on the south bank.
Barak Valley region: The Barak Valley in Assam includes Cachar, Hailakandi and Karimganj districts are often called Kachar region and South Assam region, which, excluding Karimganj and including North Cachar (Dima Hasao) together formed the erstwhile undivided Cachar district, a part of the
Kachari kingdom
The Dimasa Kingdom (also Kachari kingdom) was a late medieval/early modern kingdom in Assam, Northeast India ruled by Dimasa kings. The Dimasa kingdom and others ( Kamata, Chutiya) that developed in the wake of the Kamarupa kingdom were exa ...
, that was under the command of Gobinda Chandra. Karimganj district was a part of the colonial Sylhet district of Assam.
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