* The Cachar Levy, forerunner of the Assam Rifles, is founded in India.

In addition to the British Army, Gurkhas are also recruited by the Indian Army ( approximately 100, 000 in 44 battalions plus 25 battalions of Assam Rifles ), as part of the tripartite agreement that was signed at the time of India's independence.

* Assam Rifles

This includes the Border Security Force Act, Coast Guard Act, Indo Tibetan Police Force Act and the Assam Rifles Act.

It was on 7th-May-1961 ( Sunday ), the 7th Assam Rifles expedition team led by Late Major Sumer Singh entered the Moloshidi valley and reached the largest village in the valley, Shidi ( now called Gandhigram ).

Infantry Regiments of the Indian Army recruit based on certain selection criteria, such as geographical location ( the Punjab Regiment ), Assam Rifles etc.

The Gurkha and Garwhal Rifles and the Assam, Kumaon and the Naga Regiments wear broad brimmed hats of traditional style.

* Assam Rifles: A para-military wing of the Indian Army

Since then, ' Kangla ' has been under occupation by the Security forces / Assam Rifles.

# Unit Hospital of the Assam Rifles.

The Government of Manipur, to translate into action the general desire & aspirations of the people, had allocated a place for the Assam Rifles at Mahakoireng and had also requested the Union Government frequently to shift the Assam Rifles from ' Kangla '.

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.

Its occupation by the Assam Rifles, an Indian paramilitary force was a major source of discontent of the local people.

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 Assam Rifles are one of the Paramilitary forces of India.

Since then the Assam Rifles have undergone a number of name changes before the name Assam Rifles was finally adopted in 1917.

* Assam cricket team, a Ranji Trophy plate group team based in Assam

He made a half century in his debut match scoring 68 * in the second innings against Assam cricket team.

In 1939, Tilman was the first man to attempt climbing in the remote and unexplored Assam Himalaya, exploring the Southern approaches of Gori Chen, 6538 metres, before his team succumbed to malaria.

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.

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

The contemporary Indo-Iranian languages form the largest sub-branch of Indo-European, with more than one billion speakers in total, stretching from Europe ( Romani ) and the Caucasus ( Ossetian ) eastward to Xinjiang ( Sarikoli ) and Assam ( Assamese ) and south to Sri Lanka ( Sinhalese ).

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.

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

In 1826, British India gained a common border with China after the British wrested control of Manipur and Assam from the Burmese, following the First Anglo-Burmese War of 1824 – 1826.

" A 1908 map of The Province of Eastern Bengal and Assam prepared for the Foreign Department of the Government of India, showed the international boundary from Bhutan continuing to the Baroi River, following the Himalayas foothill alignment.

The empire stretched from Iran to Bangladesh / Assam and from Central Asia ( Afghanistan ) to Tamil Nadu / South India.

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

Mughisuddin Yuzbak also conquered Bihar and Oudh from Delhi but was killed during an unsuccessful expedition in Assam.

Several guerrilla groups seeking to establish an independent Assamese state in northeast India have set up guerrilla bases in the forests of southern Bhutan, from which they launch cross-border attacks on targets in Assam.

On 15 December 2003 the Royal Bhutan Army began military operations against guerrilla camps in southern Bhutan, in coordination with Indian armed forces who lined the border to the south to prevent the guerrillas from dispersing back into Assam.

Black panthers are reported in most densely forested areas in southwestern China, Myanmar, Assam and Nepal, from Travancore and other parts of southern India, and are said to be common in Java and the southern part of the Malay Peninsula where they may be more numerous than spotted panthers.

A tradition from Upper Assam is to invite guests to wedding receptions by offering a few areca nuts with betel leaves.

It is located about 25 km from the Assam border.

Bangladesh Railway was mostly inherited from the British-established Assam Bengal railway system after the partition of India in 1947.

* Eri silk, a type of silk from Assam, India

* T. m. maximus is a large montane subspecies found from eastern Afghanistan east through the Himalayas between 3200 and 4800 metres ( 10, 560 – 16, 000 ft ) to Sikkim, Assam, southern Tibet and western Szechwan, China.

After Chandragupta's conquests, the Maurya Empire extended from Bengal and Assam in the east, to Afghanistan and Balochistan, some part of the eastern and south-east Iran in the west, to Kashmir and Nepal in the north, and to the Deccan Plateau in the south.

The Bar-headed Goose migrates over the Himalayas to spend the winter in parts of South Asia ( from Assam to as far south as Tamil Nadu.

Tai – Kadai, an ethnic group dispersed from Assam to Taiwan, is a diverse group, and yet its genetic structure shows a distinctive profile, different from those of the other groups in East and Southeast Asia, although some resemblance between Tai – Kadai and Austronesian groups, especially Taiwanese aborigines, is noticeable.