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Assam Province was a province of British India, created in 1912 by the partition of the Eastern Bengal and Assam Province. Its capital was in Shillong. The Assam territory was first separated from Bengal in 1874 as the 'North-East Frontier' non-regulation province. It was incorporated into the new province of Eastern Bengal and Assam in 1905 ...
Undivided Assam included five of the seven contiguous states of Northeast India—with Tripura and Manipur not being a part of it. Prior to the Partition of India , Sylhet was a part of Assam. Undivided Assam had a total area of 234,568 km 2 (90,567 sq mi) which is slightly smaller than the nation of Ghana .
It was promised to increase investment in education and jobs in the new province called Eastern Bengal and Assam. [1] Lord Curzon initiated the creation of Eastern Bengal and Assam Founding conference of the All India Muslim League in Dacca, 1906. Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India, proposed the Partition of Bengal and put it into effect on 16 ...
The partition of India in 1947 was the ... the Muslim-majority province of Eastern Bengal and Assam and the Hindu ... to government records, this land totalled 42,000 ...
The head of government is the Chief Minister, currently Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma, [4] who is the leader of the group that commands a majority in the unicameral Assam Legislative Assembly. The Assam Assembly is elected by universal adult suffrage for a period of five years.
Colonial Assam (1826–1947) refers to the period in the history of Assam between the signing of the Treaty of Yandabo and the Independence of India when Assam was under British colonial rule. The political institutions and social relations that were established or severed during this period continue to have a direct effect on contemporary events.
The agitation for the creation of a separate Bodoland state resulted in an agreement between the Indian Government, the Assam state government and the Bodo Liberation Tigers Force. According to the agreement made on 10 February 2003, the Bodoland Territorial Council , an entity subordinate to the government of Assam, was created to govern four ...
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Bisha Sarma said it is a temporary measure before ECI delimitation process in the state and government may reconsider it. [ 8 ] On 25 August 2023, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma announced the decision to recreate the four newly merged districts of Biswanath , Hojai , Bajali , and Tamulpur from their ...