Assam History

Purandar Singha was the last Ahom king. The Ahom monarchy ended during the political upheavals of the early nineteenth century after Burmese intervention and British consolidation.

Ratnadhaj Singha is the Ahom ruler identified by the source with the sobriquet “Lora Roja”.

Sir Joseph Bamflyde fuller is the official identified in the source in connection with the Lieutenant-Governorship of Eastern Bengal and Assam after the 1905 Partition of Bengal.

Saditya is the permanent capital identified by the source for the medieval Chutiya kingdom.

Suhungmung is credited by the source with conducting the first organised population census in Assam.

The first Burmese invasion of Assam is placed in 1817. Further invasions followed, leading to the Treaty of Yandabo in 1826.

Narakasur is the mythological figure identified by the source in the Kamakhya-Basistha legend.

Ghatotkach is the legendary ancestral figure identified by the source in the Kachari tradition.

2 types is the number given by the source. Assam is especially famous for black tea made from the Assam variety of Camellia sinensis.

78 is the number of sub-divisions given by the source for Assam; administrative counts can change after reorganisation.

The Sarbajanik Sabha is identified by the source as the first political association of Assam.

Laxminath Bezbaruah wrote “Surabhi”, identified by the source as the first Assamese short-story collection.

Andhra pradesh is the state containing Gandikota Valley, the gorge popularly called the Grand Canyon of India.

Harichandra II is identified by the source as the first Kachari ruler at Khaspur in Cachar.

David Scott was the first British Commissioner of Assam in the post-Yandabo administrative arrangement.

Ram Navami is identified by the source as the first modern Assamese play.

L.W Shakespeare is identified by the source as the author of “History of Assam Rifles”.

Harishankar Brahma is the official identified by the source as Assam’s first Election Commissioner.

1996 is the year identified by the source for Assam’s first Panchayat election.

Pratap singha is the Ahom king identified by the source with the title “Burha Roja”.