Darrang () is an administrative
district in the state of
Assam in
India
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. The district headquarters are located at
Mangaldoi. The district occupies an
area of 1585 km
2.
History
No definitive records about Darrang are available for the pre-medieval period. According to
Maheswar Neog, the Darrang became mentioned only after the uprising of the king
Nara Narayan. It perhaps formed a part of the ancient kingdom of
Kamarupa and with its decline, Darrang at different times might have been under the rule of the
Chutia Kingdom,
Bodo people
Boro (बर'/बड़ो ), also called Bodo, is the largest ethnolinguistic group in the Assam state of India. They are a part of the greater Bodo-Kachari family of ethnolinguistic groups and are spread across northeastern India. They are ...
and
Baro-Bhuyan
The Baro-Bhuyans (or ''Baro-Bhuyan Raj''; also ''Baro-Bhuians'' and Baro-Bhuiyans) refers to the confederacies of soldier-landowners in Assam and Bengal in the late Middle Ages and the early modern period. The confederacies consisted of loose ...
s.
In the 16th century, Darrang was subject to the
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king
Nara Narayan, and on the division of his dominion among his heirs, Darrang became a part of
Koch Hajo. Early in the 17th century the raja
Bali Narayan invoked the aid of the
Ahoms of
Upper Assam
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against the
Mughal invaders; after his defeat and death in 1637 the Ahoms dominated the whole district. About 1785 the Darrang rajas took advantage of the decay of the Ahom kingdom to try and re-establish their independence, but they were defeated by a British expedition in 1792, and in 1826 Darrang, with the rest of Assam, passed under British control.
During the reign of Dharmanarayan's time 3000
Chutia people were established in Darrang.
In 1785 it was Darrang was surveyed by one Ahom officer named Dhani Ram Gohain.
On 28 January 1894, there was a peasant's uprising against the increased land revenue by the
British Raj in
Patharighat, a village in Darrang district. In the British response that followed, 140 peasants belonging to both Hindu and Muslim communities died from bullet wounds and another 150 were injured.
In 1984
Sonitpur district was formed from part of Darrang.
This was repeated on 14 June 2004 with the creation of
Udalguri district.
Geography
Darrang district occupies an area of .
National protected area
Darrang is home to
Orang National Park
Orang National Park is a national park in India located on the northern bank of the Brahmaputra River in the Darrang and Sonitpur districts of Assam. It covers an area of . It was established as a sanctuary in 1985 and declared a national park o ...
, which it shares with
Sonitpur district. Orang was established in 1999 and has an area of .
Divisions
There are four
Assam Legislative Assembly constituencies in this district: Kalaigaon, Sipajhar, Mangaldoi, and Dalgaon.
Mangaldoi is designated for
scheduled castes.
All four are in the
Mangaldoi Lok Sabha constituency.
Demographics
According to the
2011 census Darrang district has a
population of 928,500,
roughly equal to the nation of
Fiji.
This gives it a ranking of 463rd in India (out of a total of
640).
[ The district has a population density of .][ Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 22.19%.][ Darrang has a sex ratio of 954 ]females
Female (symbol: ♀) is the sex of an organism that produces the large non-motile ova (egg cells), the type of gamete (sex cell) that fuses with the male gamete during sexual reproduction.
A female has larger gametes than a male. Females ...
for every 1000 males,[ and a literacy rate of 63.08%.][ 93.9% of the population live in rural areas while 6.1% live in urban areas. Poverty rate of the district stands at 45.5%. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes make up 4.34% and 0.91% of the population respectively.
]
Religions
In Darrang district, as per the 2011 census record, Islam is the most followed religion with 597,392 adherents i.e. (64.34%), while Hinduism is followed by 327,322 i.e. 35.25% of the district population.
Languages
At the time of the 2011 census, the Assamese-speaking population was 457,696 and the Bengali-speaking population was 449,205.2011 Census of India, Population By Mother Tongue
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References
External links
Darrang District's Official Government website
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Districts of Assam
Minority Concentrated Districts in India