Kamarupi Prakrit was a Middle Indo-Aryan language spoken in Brahmaputra valley, North Bengal and Purnia, Bihar. This language is the historical ancestor of the Kamtapur, Rajbanshi, Assamese language and Northern Deshi Bangla dialects and can be dated at least to first millennium, when the ancestor of the proto-Kamata, the parental language of Kamta, Rajbanshi and Northern Deshi Bangla lects, began to develop. This sort of Sporadic Apabhramsa is a mixture of Sanskrit, Prakrit and colloquial dialects of Assam.
Kamrup district ; also Kamrup rural district is an administrative district in the state of Assam in India formed by bifurcating old Kamrup district into two in the year 2003; other being Kamrup Metropolitan district, named after region it constitute. The district, along with Nalbari and Barpeta together form the Kamrup region, has Kamrupi culture and language.
Nalbari is an administrative district in the state of Assam in India. The district headquarters is located at Nalbari.
Nalbari is a town and a municipal board in Nalbari district in the Indian state of Assam. Nalbari town is also the headquarters of Nalbari District. The town is one of many towns covered under proposed 'State Capital Region'.
North Guwahati is northern part of the city of Guwahati and a town area committee in Kamrup Rural district in the Indian state of Assam.This town is abounds in historical places and picnic spots. National Highway 27 passes through North Guwahati. Amingaon neighbourhood is district headquarter of Kamrup Rural district
The Karbi language, also known as Mikir or Arleng, is spoken by the Karbi people of north-eastern India and north-eastern Bangladesh. It belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family, but its position is unclear. Shafer (1974) and Bradley (1997) classify the Mikir languages as an aberrant Kuki-Chin branch, but Thurgood (2003) leaves them unclassified within Sino-Tibetan. Blench and Post (2013) classify it as one of the most basal languages of the entire family.
Lower Assam is a region situated in Western Brahmaputra Valley encompassing Kamrup and Goalpara regions.
Kamrup Metropolitan is one of the 33 districts in Assam state in north-eastern India. It was carved out of the erstwhile undivided Kamrup district in 2003 and covers an area equivalent to the area under the jurisdiction of the Guwahati Metropolitan Development Authority area. Dispur Legislative Assembly Constituency in Kamrup Metro district with 3.53 lakh voters is the largest constituency in Assam.
The Rajbongshi , also known as Koch/Konch/Kuch are one of the indigenous ethnic group living in Eastern South Asia(Mainly in India). They belong to Tibeto-Burmese ethnic group inhabiting parts of Assam, northern West Bengal, and some pockets on the eastern parts of Nepal, Bihar, Bhutan and northern Bangladesh. They are recognized as OBC in the state of Assam and Bihar as Koch-Rajbangshi and Rajbanshi respectively, ST in the state of Meghalaya as Koch and SC in the state of West Bengal as Rajbanshi. Etymologically, the term 'Rajbongshi'; which derives from Kamtapuri, of the Magadhi Prakrit sub-group; means 'Descendant of the king'. The Rajbongshi or Koch Rajbongshi Tribe were ethnically and culturally related to the same Narayana Dynasty who ruled their land, and vice versa, i.e., the Koch dynasty of Assam, northern Bengal, and Rangpur Part.
Chaygaon is a town in Kamrup district of Assam, India; situated on the south bank of the Brahmaputra river. It is 36.8 km from major town Guwahati. The town is known for "Maa Chandika Devalaya", a Shakti Peeth, where thousands of devotees visit during Durga Puja. Historical "Mer Ghar" of Chand Sadagar situated in Champak Nagar, Chaygaon.
Kamrupi or Kamarupi may refer to:
The Kamrupi dialect, is a dialect of Assamese language, that formerly enjoyed prestige status. It was developed primarily in North Bengal and Western Assam. It is one of two western dialect groups of the Assamese language, the other being Goalpariya. Kamrupi is heterogeneous with three subdialects—Barpetia dialect (Barpeta), Nalbaria (Nalbari) and South Kamrupi (Palashbari).
Kamrup or Kamarupa is the modern region situated between two rivers, the Manas and the Barnady in Western Assam, congruent to ancient "Kamapitha", "Kamarupa Mandala" of Pragjyotisha Bhukti, medieval "Sarkar Kamrup" and modern "Undivided Kamrup district", though historian Dinesh Chandra Sircar suspects Kamapitha division as fabrications from late medieval times.
Undivided Kamrup district is a former administrative district located in Western Assam from which Kamrup Rural (2003), Kamrup Metropolitan (2003), Barpeta (1983), Nalbari (1985) and Baksa (2004) Kamrup South (2015) districts were formed. It was large administrative district in colonial times that has been reducing its size in subsequent periods.
The Kamrupi people are an ethno-linguistic group that speak the Kamrupi dialect and are found in the Kamrup region of India.
