* State Anthem of Assam

The white tiger is a recessive mutant of the Bengal tiger, which is reported in the wild from time to time in Assam, Bengal, Bihar and especially from the former State of Rewa.

Five or six species are native to China, Indochina, and India ( State of Assam ), 11 or 12 are from the United States, two to four are from Canada and four are found in Mexico.

Given its unique cultural and economic development, and linguistic differences ( Greater Sylhet region was a part of Assam and Surma Valley State for much of the British Raj in comparison to the rest of Bangladesh ), and given that Sylhet has, for most of its recent history, been a region of a larger entity.

Jacob, the then Union Minister of State ( Home ) visited Manipur in 1992 and a section of the Assam Rifles, then stationed at ' Kangla ' Fort was shifted to Mahakoireng in a symbolic ceremony indicating the sincere gesture of the Union Government to vacate ' Kangla ' to fulfill the common wish of the people of Manipur.

The vacation of ' Kangla Fort ' by the Assam Rifles and its subsequent handing over to the State Government has also been assured by the then Union Home Ministers like Shri S. B.

Since the Government of India is considering to hand over the historical ' Kangla Fort ' measuring about, after its vacation by the Assam Rifles, on 20 November 2004 in presence of the Prime Minister of India, the State Cabinet has recently approved the draft ' Kangla Fort Ordinance, 2004 '.

It is proposed to promulgate this ' Ordinance ' soon after the possession of the ' Kangla Fort ' is handed over to the State Government by the Assam Rifles.

M. M. Jacob, the then Minister of State for Home in 1992 had announced in a speech that the Assam Rifles would hand over the historic fort to the state government.

The campus-based station, licensed to Krishna Kanta Handiqui State Open University, Guwahati, Assam, aired its first programme on 28 January 2009 as an experimental broadcast.

The Vicariate of East Bengal embraced the present-day Archdiocese of Dhaka, Diocese of Mymensingh, and Diocese of Chittagong, as well as a large part of Assam, the Arakan district ( former name of the Rakhine State of western Burma, and the Diocese of Agartala in eastern India.

The AGP contested the State Assembly elections held in December 1985 and swept the polls by winning 67 of the 126 seats apart from capturing seven of the 14 Lok Sabha ( Parliament ) seats, and formed the Government of Assam.

Category: State political parties in Assam

In 1991 the Ara seat was lost, but the party won a seat in Assam through the mass movement Autonomous State Demand Committee.

The Khasi are an indigenous or tribal people, the majority of whom live in the State of Meghalaya in North East India, with small populations in neighbouring Assam, and in parts of Bangladesh.

In Citizens for Democracy through its President v. State of Assam and Others, 1995 KHC 486: 1995 ( 2 ) KLT SN 74: 1995 ( 3 ) SCC 743: 1995 SCC ( Cri ) 600: AIR 1996 SC 2193, the court entertained a letter from Shri Kuldip Nayar ( a journalist, in his capacity as President of Citizens for Democracy ) to a judge of the court alleging human-rights violations of Terrorist and Disruptive Activities ( Prevention ) Act ( TADA ) detainees ; it was treated as a petition under Article 32 of the Constitution of India.

* Krishna Kanta Handiqui State Open University, Assam, India popularly known as KKHSOU

Autonomous State Demand Committee, originally the Peoples Democratic Front, was set up as a mass organization of the Communist Party of India ( Marxist-Leninist ) Liberation in order to fight for statehood for the Karbi Anlong region in the Indian state Assam.

Nagaland was created in 1963 as the 16th State of Indian Union, before which it was a district of Assam.

In 1997 General Sinha was appointed Governor of Assam at a time when insurgency in that State was at its peak.

He was instrumental in installing one lakh shallow tube wells in Brahmaputra valley turning Assam from a rice deficit State to a rice surplus State.

The senior and most respected journalist of Assam, Shri D N Bezboruah, former President of Editor Guilds of India, wrote abut him, " a Governor who far outshone all his predecessors in not being just a titular Head of State, but a Governor who served the State brilliantly with deep commitment to its people for six glorious and eventful years.

" When he departed from Assam in 2003 insurgency was virtually over in the State and he was popularly referred to as " a true son of the soil of Assam.

* Board of Secondary Education, Assam

Board of Secondary Education, Assam has also included Hmar as an MIL in its matriculation syllabus from 2005.

* Sarkar, J. N. ( 1992 ) Chapter I: The Sources in The Comprehensive History of Assam, ( ed H K Barpujari ) Publication Board, Assam.

Other posts held by him during his long career are the Chairman, Assam Madrassa Board ; Chairman, State Haj Committee and the Pro tem Speaker of the Assam Legislative Assembly ( in 1967 ).

As Chairman of Madrassah Board, he initiated modernization of these theological schools and is also credited for the introduction of English and science in the curriculum of madrassas of Assam.

For a brief period each year, the rays of the sun are warm enough to melt some of the snows piled a mile deep at the base of the headwalls, and then the pinnacles glisten in the daytime at high noon, and billions of gallons of water begin their slow seepage under the glaciers and across the rockstrewn hanging valleys on their long, meandering journey to the sea -- running east past the sky-carving massifs of Gurla Mandhata and Kemchenjunga, then turning south and curling down through the jungles of Assam, past the Khasi Hills, and into Bengal, past Sirinjani and Madaripur, until the hard water of the melting snows mingles with the soft drainage of fields and at length fans out to meld with the teeming salt depths of the Bay of Bengal.

When they got to Shillong, in Assam, he was happy.

His empire stretched from the Hindu Kush mountains in Afghanistan to the present-day Bangladesh and the Indian state of Assam in the east, and as far south as northern Kerala and Andhra Pradesh.

* 1996 – In the Indian state of Assam, a passenger train is bombed by Bodo separatists, killing 26.

His empire stretched from Assam and Utkala in the east, and modern day Afghanistan in the north-west and Deccan in the south.

According to Pala copperplate inscription Devapala exterminated the Utkalas, conquered the Pragjyotisha ( Assam ), shattered the pride of the Huna, and humbled the lords of Pratiharas, Gurjara and the Dravidas.

When the Lord Curzon ( Viceroy 1899-1905 ) took control of higher education and then split the large province of Bengal into a largely Hindu western half and " Eastern Bengal and Assam ," a largely Muslim eastern half.

At its greatest extent, the empire stretched to the north along the natural boundaries of the Himalayas, and to the east stretching into what is now Assam.

Bihu is the festival of New Year of Assam falling on mid April.

Most prominent amongst them are the Naga fight for Greater Nagaland, the Chin struggle for a unified Chinland and other self-determinist movements by the ethnic indigenous peoples of the erstwhile Assam both under the British and post-British Assam under India.

Ibn Battuta went further north into Assam, then turned around and continued with his original plan.

During this regime he would target the peoples of Assam near the eastern frontier and bring a series of territories controlled by independent rajas in the Himalayan foothills from Kashmir to Bengal.

This mountain is part of a series of parallel ranges that run from the foothills of the Himalaya through the border areas with Assam, Nagaland and Mizoram.

Anglo-Assamese relations, 1771-1826: a history of the relations of Assam with the East India Company from 1771 to 1826, based on original English and Assamese sources.

* On 24 November each year, Lachit Divas is celebrated statewide in Assam, India, to commemorate the heroism of the great general Lachit Borphukan and the victory of the Assamese army over the Mughal army at the battle of Saraighat in 1671.

* 2011 – Bhupen Hazarika, Indian singer, composer, lyricist, music director, and filmmaker from Assam ( b. 1926 )

* Assamese New Year ( Rongali Bihu or Bohag Bihu ) is celebrated on 14 – 15 April in the Indian state of Assam.

The first polo club was established in the town of Silchar in Assam, India, in 1834. There is also a polo ground in chooto jalanga ( irongmara / dwarbond ).

Its range includes southern Tibet, Sikkim and Assam in India, Bhutan, the northern mountains of Burma, and in southwestern China, in the Hengduan Mountains of Sichuan and the Gongshan Mountains in Yunnan.

* Western red panda A. f. fulgens ( Cuvier, 1825 ) lives in the western part of its range, in Nepal, Assam, Sikkim and Bhutan

Substantial communities of Sikhs, i. e., greater than 200, 000, live in the Indian States / Union territories of Haryana ( with more than 1. 1 million Sikh population ), Rajasthan, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Maharashtra, Uttaranchal, Madhya Pradesh Assam and Jammu and Kashmir.