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Assam ( ; Ôxôm ; Asam; Âshám ) is a state in northeastern India. Located south of the eastern Himalayas, Assam comprises the Brahmaputra Valley and the Barak Valley along with the Karbi Anglong and Dima Hasao districts with an area of . Assam, along with Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, [Sikkim] and Meghalaya, is one of the Eight Sister States. Geographically, Assam and these states are connected to the rest of India via a strip of land in West Bengal called the Siliguri Corridor or "Chicken's Neck". Assam shares an international border with Bhutan and Bangladesh; and its culture, people and climate are similar to those of South-East Asia – comprising the elements in India’s Look East policy. Assam became a part of British India after the British East India Company occupied the region following the First Anglo-Burmese War of 1824–1826.

Assam is known for Assam tea and Assam silk. The first oil well in Asia was drilled here. The state has conserved the one-horned Indian rhinoceros from near extinction, along with the wild water buffalo, pygmy hog, tiger and various species of Asiatic birds. It provides one of the last wild habitats for the Asian elephant. The Assamese economy is aided by wildlife tourism, centred around Kaziranga National Park and Manas National Park which are World Heritage Sites. Sal tree forests are found in the state which, as a result of abundant rainfall, looks green all year round. Assam receives more rainfall compared to most parts of India. This rain feeds the Brahmaputra River, whose tributaries and oxbow lakes provide the region with a hydro- geomorphic and aesthetic environment .

Assam (disambiguation)

Assam is the Northeastern Indian state.

Assam may also refer to:

  • Assam Tea, the tea that are produced in Assam
  • Assam silk, the silks that are produced in Assam
  • Assam Oil, the erstwhile company (and currently a division of Oil India Company), that was involved in drilling and refining crude oil in Assam
  • Colonial Assam Province, a province of British India
  • Kingdom of Assam, the Ahom Kingdom, as it was known in medieval times
  • Assam Company, the British company that administered Colonial Assam in the 19th century

Usage examples of "assam".

At present the only work of the kind is one which treats exclusively of the Peninsula of India, and which consequently omits the more interesting types found in Assam, Burmah, and Ceylon, as well as the countries bordering the British Indian Empire on the North.

A friend, resident on the frontiers of Assam, tells me that the full-grown adult pines and dies in confinement.

Malayan animals are found on the confines of Burmah, and even extending into Assam, it is probable that this species may be discovered in Tenasserim.

I have no doubt it abounds in Sontalia and Assam, and many other hilly parts.

Sikim, Assam, Burmah, and down the Malayan Peninsula to Sumatra, Java and Borneo.

Afghanistan to Bengal, also Assam and Burmah, and on into the Malayan peninsula.

Himalayas to Assam, the Garo hills, Sylhet, and Cachar, spreading from Northern Assam across to Yunnan, and through Arakan and Tenasserim on to the Malayan peninsula and Borneo.

Nepal and Thibet to the east of China and Formosa, and through Assam and Cachar south-eastward to Tenasserim and Siam.

The pitfall is now prohibited, so also is the Assam plan of inclosing a herd in a salt lick.

I have lately heard of them in Assam, but forget the precise locality.

Brahmaputra, at the head of the Assam valley, the Mishmi hills, in hill Tipperah, Chittagong, and then southwards through Burmah to the hills bordering on the Koladyne river.

It is very abundant in Assam, inhabiting the islands and churs of the Berhampooter, extending down the river in suitable spots to the eastern Sunderbunds.

Anticipating even then the loss of lower Burma, even before the Japanese had crossed the border, the Chinese formally requested Lend-Lease material to construct a road from Ledo in Assam across the mountains, forests and rivers of north Burma to tie in with the Burma Road on the Chinese side at Lungling.

Brahmaputra delta and the green hills of Assam and up over the dark mountain ridges of Burma into Lashio.

He had been notified that 25 transport planes had been assembled or were on their way to Assam and ready to begin operations.