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West Karbi Anglong District
The West Karbi Anglong district is an District, administrative unit in the India, Indian state of Assam. It is a List of districts of Assam, relatively new district formed out of the existing Karbi Anglong district in 2016. The administrative headquarters of the district is located at Hamren. The district is a part of the Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council and is administered according to the provisions of the Scheduled Areas, Sixth Schedule of the Constitution of India, Indian Constitution. Etymology The name West Karbi Anglong, reflects its origin as a portion carved from the Western part of the Karbi Anglong district in 2016. ''Karbi people, Karbi'' is the name of the indigenous tribe that lives in and around the region while ''Anglong'' is the word they use in the Karbi language to mean a "hill" or a "mountain". So the term ''Karbi Anglong'' literally means Karbi Hills. History Prior to the British colonisation of the area, the hill tribes of Northeast India maintained the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Districts Of Assam
Assam, a Northeast India, northeastern States and territories of India, state of India, is divided into 35 administrative geographical units called ''districts''. Assam has 35 districts. Administrations A district of an Indian state is an administrative geographical unit, headed by the District Commissioner (DC), which combines the offices of the District Magistrate ultimately responsible for maintaining law and order and District Collector responsible for collection of the revenue. Generally, an officer belonging to the Indian Administrative Service becomes the DC but occasionally officers belonging to the Assam Civil Service do get appointed. The DC is assisted by a number of officials belonging to different wings of the administrative services of the state. The districts of Assam are grouped together in [Divisions of Assam, five regional divisions], headed by a Commissioner. A superintendent of Police, an officer belonging to Indian Police Service is entrusted with the resp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karbi Anglong District
Karbi Anglong district is an District, administrative unit in the States and union territories of India, Indian state of Assam. It is an autonomous district administered by the Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council (KAAC) according to the provisions of the Scheduled Areas, Sixth Schedule of the constitution of India. The district headquarters is in Diphu. Etymology "Karbi Anglong" is derived from the Karbi language. Karbi people, Karbi is the name of the Indigenous peoples, indigenous tribe living in and around the region. The origin of the word ''Karbi'' is unknown. ''Anglong'' is a homonym in the Karbi language for hills and mountains. The term ''Karbi Anglong'' literally means "Karbi Hills". History Pre independence Prior to the British colonisation of Assam, the major hill tribes of Assam (1947–1963), Undivided Assam had their own separate "states" they lived in without much outside interference. They were not a part of any properly established external government or Monarchy, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dongkamukam
Dongkamukam (IPA: ˌdɒŋəˈməʊkəm ) is a town and a town area committee in West Karbi Anglong district in the state of Assam, India. Etymology ''Dong'' in the Karbi language mean shallow water or river. ''Kam'' means step(verb)/crossing. Donkamukam can be translated as "to cross the shallow water". Demographics Demographically, around 95% of the population living in Dongkamukam town belongs to the Karbi tribe. The majority of non-Karbi settlers in the area have come for business purposes and have rented houses or leased land. Most Karbis living in the area practice a form of Animism Animism (from meaning 'breath, spirit, life') is the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence. Animism perceives all things—animals, plants, rocks, rivers, weather systems, human handiwork, and in ..., while a small portion of the population have embraced Christianity. They mainly reside in the villages of Bordongka, Taralangso, Sojong, Ghila ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Reid (civil Servant)
Sir Robert Niel Reid (15 July 1883 – 24 October 1964) was a British colonial administrator in India. He was Governor of Assam This is a list of governors of Assam, and other offices of similar scope, from the start of British occupation of the area in 1824 during the First Anglo-Burmese War. The governor of Assam is the nominal head of the Indian state of Assam. The ... from 1937 to 1942. His son, Robert Reid (railwayman), Sir Robert Basil Reid, was chairman of the British Railways Board from 1983 until 1990. References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Semsonsing Ingti
Semsonsing Ingti (1910–1948) was an Indian social and economic reformer and author. He has been called the Father of the Karbi people, for his work in uniting the Karbi, an indigenous ethnic group in Northeast India concentrated in the state of Assam. He was also called ''Lametpo'' during his heyday."A Tribute to Semsonsing Ingti : Father of Karbi Nationalism" ''Dharamsing Teron'', March 13, 2009 Early life Semsonsing Ingti was the second child of the late Thengkursing Ingti and Madhobi Ruth Barua. Semsonsing Ingti was educated at Golaghat Mission High School. He matriculated at Bezbaruah High School, where he returned after completing his degree and becoming a teacher. He then studied at[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Government Of India Act 1935
The Government of India Act 1935 (25 & 26 Geo. 5. c. 42) was an Act of Parliament (UK), act passed by the British Parliament that originally received royal assent in August 1935. It was the longest act that the British Parliament ever enacted until the Greater London Authority Act 1999 surpassed it. Because of its length, the act was retroactively split by the Government of India (Reprinting) Act 1935 (26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8. c. 1) into two separate acts: * The Government of India Act 1935 (26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8. c. 2), having 321 sections and 10 schedules. * The Government of Burma Act 1935 (26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8. c. 3), having 159 sections and 6 schedules. The act led to: *Separation of British rule in Burma, Burma from British India, effective from April 1, 1937. *Establishment of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). *Establishment of the Union Public Service Commission, Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC), a Public service commissions in India#State Public Service Commiss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dima Hasao District
Dima Hasao district (), is an administrative district in the state of Assam, India. As of 2011, it is the least populous district of Assam. Dima Hasao district is one of two autonomous hill districts of Assam. The district headquarters Haflong is the only hill station in the state. Etymology "Dima Hasao" means "Dimasa Hills" in the Dimasa language. History Dimasa kingdom From , Dima Hasao was part of the Dimasa Kingdom (or Kachar kingdom), with its capital at Maibang and Dimapur. As per Ahom Buranji, the kingdom stretched from the Kopili river in present-day Nagaon district to the Dhansiri river in present-day Golaghat district. This included parts of Cachar and North Cachar (Dima Hasao), the districts of Hojai, Nagaon, Golaghat and Karbi Anglong of Assam and Dimapur district, in Nagaland. In the colonial period, Khaspur in present-day Cachar district was the administrative centre. However an internal schism led to the division of the old Kachar Kingdom into two parts. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Commission
The Indian Statutory Commission, also known as the Simon Commission, was a group of seven members of the British Parliament under the chairmanship of John Simon. The commission arrived in the Indian subcontinent in 1928 to study constitutional reform in British India. One of its members was Clement Attlee, who would later become the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1945 - 1951). Background The commission was constituted because at the time of introducing the Montagu–Chelmsford Reforms in 1919, the British Government had declared that a commission would be sent to India after ten years to examine the effects and operations of the constitutional reforms and to suggest further reforms. In November 1927, the British government appointed the Simon Commission two years ahead of schedule. The commission was strongly opposed by the Muslim League and the Indian National Congress, and prominent Indian leaders including Nehru, Gandhi, and Jinnah, because it contained only Briti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karbi Language
The Karbi language () is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by the Karbi (also known as Mikir or Arlêng) people of Northeastern India. It is also called Hills Karbi to differentiate it from Plains Karbi (Amri Karbi) which is variously treated as a variety of Karbi or its own language. It belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family, but its position is unclear. Grierson (1903) classified it under Naga languages, Shafer (1974) and Bradley (1997) classify the Mikir languages as an aberrant Kuki-Chin branch, but Thurgood (2003) leaves them unclassified within Sino-Tibetan. Blench and Post (2013) classify it as one of the most basal languages of the entire family. History Originally, there was no written form of the language, and like most languages of Northeast India, Karbi writing system is based on Roman script, occasionally in Assamese script. The earliest written texts in Karbi were produced by Christian missionaries, in Roman script, especially by the American Baptist Missio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karbi People
The Karbis or Mikir are a Tibeto-Burman ethnic group in Northeast India. They are mostly concentrated in the hill districts of Karbi Anglong and West Karbi Anglong of Assam. Etymology The origin of the word Karbi is unknown. Historically and by ancestry they called themselves ''Arleng'' (literally "man" in Karbi language) and are called Karbi by others. They were referred to and identified as "Mikir" during British rule. The term ''Mikir'' is now considered derogatory. There is no definitive meaning of the word ''Mikir'' in Karbi language. The closest meaning of ''Mikir'' could be said to be derived from "Mekar" ''(English: People)''. Overview The Karbi community is the principal indigenous community in the Karbi Anglong district and West Karbi Anglong district of the Indian State of Assam. The districts are administered as per the provisions of the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution of India, having been granted autonomy on 17 November 1951. Besides the Karbi Anglo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
