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Gelapukhuri
Gelapukhuri (in short GP) is a famous place in Biswanath Chariali, India. It is a medium-sized village located 10 km from Biswanath Chariali City of Biswanath district, Assam with a total of 183 families residing. The Gelapukhuri village has a population of 872 of which 458 are males while 414 are females, as per Population Census 2011. In Gelapukhuri, the majority of people are Indian Gorkhas along with Assamese, Bodo, Adibasi etc. In Gelapukhuri Village, the population of children age 0-6 is 132 which makes up 15.14% of the total population of the village. Average Sex Ratio of the village is 904. This is lower than the Assam state average of 958. Child Sex Ratio for Gelapukhuri as per census is 671. This is lower than the Assam average of 962. Gelapukhuri Village has a lower literacy rate compared to Assam. In 2011, the literacy rate of Gelapukhuri Village was 62.57% compared to 72.19% of Assam In Gelapukhuri, male literacy stands at 70.45% while the female literacy rat ...
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Biswanath Chariali
Biswanath (Pron: ˌbɪswəˈnɑːθ ˈtʃɑːrɪˌælɪ) is a small city and a municipal board in Biswanath district in the state of Assam, India. This city is the district headquarters of Biswanath district, which was created on 15 August 2015. It derives its name from Biswanath Ghat.Clock Tower, Herne Bay, ¹ History Biswanath has a very important historical significance. It formed the borders between Kamata kingdom and Chutiya kingdom, and later between Koch kingdom and Ahom kingdom. Ruins of fort like Pratapgarh, Buroi, etc. still exist which were built by Chutiya people, Chutia kings. Demographics As of 2011 India census, Biswanath Chariali had a population of 19,145. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. As per 2001 census, Biswanath Chariali has an average literacy rate of 80%, higher than the national average of 59.5%; with male literacy of 85% and female literacy of 75%. 9% of the population is under 6 years of age. Language Assamese is the most s ...
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Biswanath District
Biswanath (IPA: ˌbɪswəˈnɑːθ ˈtʃɑːrɪˌælɪ) is an administrative district in the state of Assam in India. It is one of newly created district in the year by 2015, declared by Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on 15 August 2015. The district is created amalgamating Gohpur and most part of Biswanath Sub division on earlier Sonitpur district. The district is bounded by Arunachal Pradesh on north, Golaghat, Brahmaputra River on the south, Lakhimpur district on the east and Sonitpur district on the west. The administrative headquarter is located at Biswanath Chariali. On 31 December 2022, the district remerged with existing Sonitpur district ahead of delimitation process by ECI in the state. However, on August 25, 2023, the Assam cabinet announced the restoration of Biswanath's district status. History The major part of Biswanath district formed a part of the Chutiya kingdom until it was annexed in the 16th century by the Ahoms. The western part of the district was un ...
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Maral Gaon
Maral gaon is a village in the Biswanath district of the Indian state of Assam. It is one of 392 villages within the Biswanath subdivision and covers an area of 333 hectares. The 2011 Census of India indicated that a significant proportion of the village's population belongs to the Scheduled Caste category. Administratively, Maral Gaon falls under the jurisdiction of the Burigang Erabari Gram Panchayat, which is a part of the Biswanath Anchalik Panchayat. Demographics As of the 2011 Census of India, the village had a population of 1,592, with a sex ratio of 1002 females per 1000 males. The literacy rate of the village was 82.85%. There were 341 households in the village. The Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) populations accounted for approximately 57.4% and 0.8% of the total population, respectively. Geography It is geographically located at . The village covers a total area of 333 hectares. The Permanent Location Code Number (PLCN) assigned to Maral Gaon by t ...
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India
India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since 2023; and, since its independence in 1947, the world's most populous democracy. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is near Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia. Modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa no later than 55,000 years ago., "Y-Chromosome and Mt-DNA data support the colonization of South Asia by modern humans originating in Africa. ... Coalescence dates for most non-European populations averag ...
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Assam
Assam (, , ) is a state in Northeast India, northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra Valley, Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . It is the second largest state in Northeast India, northeastern India by area and the largest in terms of population, with more than 31 million inhabitants. 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 strip of land that connects the state to the rest of India. Assamese language, Assamese and Bodo language, Bodo are two of the official languages for the entire state and Meitei language, Meitei (Manipuri language, Manipuri) is recognised as an additional official language in three districts of Barak Valley and Hojai district. in Hojai district and for the Barak valley region, alongside Bengali language, Bengali, which is also ...
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Census
A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of statistics. This term is used mostly in connection with Population and housing censuses by country, national population and housing censuses; other common censuses include Census of agriculture, censuses of agriculture, traditional culture, business, supplies, and traffic censuses. The United Nations (UN) defines the essential features of population and housing censuses as "individual enumeration, universality within a defined territory, simultaneity and defined periodicity", and recommends that population censuses be taken at least every ten years. UN recommendations also cover census topics to be collected, official definitions, classifications, and other useful information to coordinate international practices. The United Nations, UN's Food ...
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Indian Gorkha
Indian Gorkhas, also known as Nepali Indians, are an Indian ethno-cultural group who speak Nepali language, Nepali as a common language. They inhabit mainly the states of Sikkim, West Bengal, Northeast India and Uttarakhand, including their diaspora elsewhere in India and abroad. Indian Gorkhas are citizens of India as per the gazette notification of the Government of India on the issue of citizenship of the Gorkhas from India. The Nepali language, Nepali language is included in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India, eighth schedule of the Indian Constitution. However, the Indian Gorkhas are faced with a unique identity crisis with regard to their Indian citizenship because of the 1950 Indo-Nepal Treaty of Peace and Friendship, Indo-Nepal Treaty of Peace and Friendship (1950) that permits "on a Reciprocity (international relations), reciprocal basis, the nationals of one country in the territories of the other the same privileges in the matter of residence, ownership ...
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Assamese People
The Assamese people are a socio- ethnic linguistic identity that has been described at various times as nationalistic or micro-nationalistic. This group is often associated with the Assamese language, the easternmost Indo-Aryan language, and Assamese people mostly live in the Brahmaputra Valley region of Assam, where they are native and constitute around 56% of the Valley's population. The use of the term precedes the name of the language or the people. It has also been used retrospectively to the people of Assam before the term "Assamese" came into use. They are an ethnically diverse group formed after centuries of assimilation of Austroasiatic, Tibeto-Burman, Indo-Aryan and Tai populations, and constitute a tribal-caste continuum—though not all Assamese people are Hindus and ethnic Assamese Muslims numbering around 42 lakh () constitute a significant part of this identity. The total population of Assamese speakers in Assam is nearly 15.09 million which makes up 48. ...
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Bodo People
The Boro (बर'/बड़ो ), also called Bodo, are a Tibeto-Burman languages, Tibeto-Burman speaking ethnolinguistic group native to the state of Assam in India. They are a part of the greater Bodo-Kachari people, Bodo-Kachari family of ethnolinguistic groups and are spread across northeastern India. They are concentrated mainly in the Bodoland Territorial Region of Assam, though Boros inhabit all other districts of Assam and Meghalaya. Boros were listed under both "Boro" and "Borokachari" in The Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order, 1950, and are continued to be called so in the Census of India documents. Boros speak the Boro language (India), Boro language, a Boro-Garo languages, Boro-Garo language of the Tibeto-Burman family, which is recognised as one of twenty-two Scheduled languages of India. Over two-thirds of the people are bilingual, speaking Assamese as second language. The Boro along with other cognate groups of Bodo-Kachari peoples are prehistoric settlers who ...
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Tezpur
Tezpur () is a city in Sonitpur district, Assam state, India. Tezpur is located on the banks of the river Brahmaputra, northeast of Guwahati, and is the largest of the north bank cities. History Tezpur was under the rule of the Koch dynasty and later became a part of the Ahom kingdom in the 16th century. The Ahoms, known for their administrative prowess and patronage of art and culture, played a vital role in shaping Tezpur's heritage. The city witnessed several battles and conflicts during the medieval period. Modern Tezpur is a medieval trading town and cultural and educational hub, home to several archaeological sites, temples, and monuments. Climate The average high temperature in summer is around while the average winter low temperature is around . Demography At the 2011 census, the population of the Tezpur city Municipal Corporation area was 102,505. Of these, 40,837 people spoke Assamese, 18,696 spoke Bengali, 11,050 spoke Hindi, and 31,920 spoke other langu ...
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Biswanath Chariali Railway Station
Viswanath Charali railway station is a main railway station in Biswanath Chariali Biswanath (Pron: ˌbɪswəˈnɑːθ ˈtʃɑːrɪˌælɪ) is a small city and a municipal board in Biswanath district in the state of Assam, India. This city is the district headquarters of Biswanath district, which was created on 15 August 2015. ..., Assam. Its code is VNE. It serves Biswanath Chariali town. The station consists of three platforms. The station has been upgraded to a standard Class III Station. Major trains * New Tinsukia–Tambaram Weekly Express * Dibrugarh–Howrah Kamrup Express Via Rangapara North * Dibrugarh - Deogarh Express * Naharlagun–Guwahati Shatabdi Express * Naharlagun–Shokhüvi Donyi Polo Express * Kamakhya–Murkongselek Lachit Express * Dekargaon–Murkongselek Passenger * Rangiya–Murkongselek Passenger * Rangiya–Murkongselek Special Passenger References Railway stations in Biswanath district Rangiya railway division {{Assam-railstatio ...
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