Guwahati is the largest city in the Indian state of Assam and also the largest urban area in Northeast India. A major riverine port city and one of the fastest growing cities in India, Guwahati is situated on the south bank of the Brahmaputra.
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.
The Institute for Plasma Research (IPR) is an autonomous physics research institute located in India. The institute is involved in research in aspects of plasma science including basic plasma physics, research on magnetically confined hot plasmas and plasma technologies for industrial applications. It is a large and leading plasma physics organization in India. The institute is mainly funded by Department of Atomic Energy. IPR is playing major scientific and technical role in Indian partnership in the international fusion energy initiative ITER. It is part of the IndiGO consortium for research on Gravitational Waves.
Sonepur or Sonapur may refer to:
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.
Sonapur is a small town located in the outskirts of Guwahati city in Kamrup Metropolitan district of the Indian state of Assam. Sonapur is situated beside National Highway 37 near the river Digaru, which flows into the Kalang river close to its embouchure into the Brahmaputra.
The Rajbanshi are one of the indigenous ethnic groups inhabiting parts of Assam, Meghalaya, northern West Bengal, and some pockets on the eastern parts of Nepal, Bihar, Bhutan and northern Bangladesh.
Amri, or Amri Karbi, is spoken by the Karbi people of Assam and Meghalaya. Latin script is used for institutional practice, but authors use both Latin and Assamese script in various publications. The speakers consider their speech as a variety of the Karbi language.
Baihata Chariali is a town in Kamrup Rural district of Assam, India; situated at norther site of the river Brahmaputra.
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.
South Kamrup District is one of the 35 districts of Indian state of Assam. This district is formed by dividing Kamrup Rural district. It may be mentioned that the constituencies of Palasbari, Chaygaon and Boko constituencies have been included to create the South Kamrup district. Bijoynagar is a major town in the district.
Bhogpur is a village in Kamrup rural district, in outskirts of Guwahati, in the state of Assam, India, situated in south bank of river Brahmaputra.It is surrounded by localities of Sonapur, Jorabat, and Jagiroad.
Sonapur College, established in 1991, is a general degree college situated at Sonapur, in Kamrup district, Assam. This college is affiliated with the Gauhati University. This college offers different bachelor degree courses in Arts, Commerce and B. Voc.
Chamatapathar is a village in Kamrup rural district, in the state of Assam, India, situated in south bank of river Brahmaputra.
