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What the Ahoms Built and Why It Lasted The Ahom kingdom did not fall to the Mughals. That fact alone is worth the journey to Sivasagar. From 1228 to 1826, a dynasty that arrived from present-day ...
News India » Assam » History: Meet Ankita Konwar: First woman from Assam, Northeast India to make history by swimming the 33.5 km English Channel despite freezing waters and strong currents
Assam has a new hero and the name is Ankita Konwar. The northeast Indian state got another reason to celebrate on the global endurance-sports map. Konwar has become the first Assamese woman and the ...
News India » Assam » History: Guwahati’s cricketing memory and changing India-West Indies rivalry
O n September 30, Guwahati will host an India-West Indies ODI. The teams will reconnect the city with a rivalry first staged here in December 1983. Forty-three years separate those encounters, ...
News India » Assam » History: How Political Patronage and Official Apathy Led to Encroachment of Government Land in India’s Border State of Assam
Encroachers belong to different communities, including local groups in some instances, but many are Muslim immigrants from erstwhile East Pakistan and Bangladesh. Violence erupted unexpectedly at West ...
News India » Assam » History: The Strategic Importance Of The Northeastern Indian State Of Assam – Analysis
While India is looking after the military aspect of Assam’s security, Japan is aiding the State’s economic development. The Northeastern Indian State of Assam has been of great importance for the ...