A brief history
Northeast India · Formed 1947 · Capital Dispur
The Ahom kingdom ruled the Brahmaputra valley for 600 years, resisting Mughal invasions. The tea gardens, first planted by the British in the 1830s, defined its modern economy.
LanguagesAssameseBodo
Famous families & dynasties
- Ahom royal familyTai-origin dynasty (1228–1826) — nowadays merged into Assamese identity.
- Koch royal familyNorthwestern Assam's medieval rulers.
- Zamindar housesLand-revenue lineages of the Brahmaputra valley.
Communities & clans
AhomAssamese BrahminKalitaBodoKarbiAssamese MuslimBengali (Bhatia)Adivasi (tea garden)
Common gotras / clan names
BharadwajaKashyapaVasishtaVashistaSandilya
Migration corridors from Assam
- →Delhi / BangaloreEducation and IT migration since the 1990s.
- →United KingdomDoctors and academics from Guwahati.
Trees from Assam
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