The West Karbi Anglong district is a district formed out of the existing Donka circle of

Karbi Anglong district Karbi Anglong district is one of the 34 administrative districts of Assam in India. Diphu is the administrative headquarter of the district. The district is administered by Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council according to the Sixth Schedule of the C ...

Assam Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...

in 2016. Hamren is the headquarter of the newly formed district. The district is part of

Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council (KAAC) is an autonomous district council in the state of Assam, India for development and protection of tribals living in area namely Karbi Anglong and West Karbi Anglong district. The council is constituted und ...

and administered according to the provisions of Sixth Scheduled of the Indian Constitution.

History

The hill tribes of

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were independent of the settled empires around them prior to the British colonisation of the region. After the recommendation of

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, the hills area (Now present district,

Dima Hasao district Dima Hasao district (), earlier called North Cachar Hills district, is an administrative district in the state of Assam, India. As of 2011, it is the least populous district of Assam. Dima Hasao district is one of the two autonomous hill distr ...

) was given a different status under Section 92 of the

Government of India Act 1935 The Government of India Act, 1935 was an Act adapted from the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It originally received royal assent in August 1935. It was the longest Act of (British) Parliament ever enacted until the Greater London Authority ...

: Mikir Hills was placed under the "Partially Excluded Areas". The Govt. of Assam, which means had no jurisdiction over the excluded areas which were administered directly under the special power of the Governor. During mid-1930: Political leaders

Semsonsing Ingti Semsonsing Ingti (1910-1948) was an Indian social and economic reformer and author. He has been called the Father of the Karbi people, for his work in uniting the Karbi, an indigenous ethnic group in Northeast India concentrated in the state of As ...

, Seng Bey, Khorsing Terang, etc. emerged from this particular area. In 1937, these leaders, in a memorandum to Assam Governor, Sir Robert Neil Reid, at Mohungodijua, demanded a separate hill district for Mikirs. A regional political forum, called Karbi-A-Durbar, was formed to intensify the movement. After Independence of India, the hill district was formed by the name of United Mikir & NC Hills on 17 November 1951 under Sixth Schedule of the Indian Constitution. Since then, the district has been constant part of Autonomous State demand movement. The District was later divided into

Karbi Anglong Karbi may refer to: Places * Karbi, Armenia * Karbi Anglong Plateau, an extension of the Indian Plate in Assam, India * Karbi Anglong district, a district of Assam, north-eastern India Other uses * Karbi people, an ethnic group of North-east ...

and

North Cachar Hills Dima Hasao district (), earlier called North Cachar Hills district, is an administrative district in the state of Assam, India. As of 2011, it is the least populous district of Assam. Dima Hasao district is one of the two autonomous hill distr ...

district on 2 February 1970. In 2016,

was further divided into two, of which the west part (comprising Donka revenue circle), including Hamren, Baithalangso (Vothatlangso) and Dongkamukam and other adjoining areas formed the new district of West Karbi Anglong to develop the mass rural area. Hamren is the headquarters of the newly created district.

Geography

Karbi Anglong plateau is an extension of the

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(The Peninsular Block) in the

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. This area receives maximum rainfall from the Southwest summer Monsoon from June through September. It is bounded by Golaghat in east, Meghalaya and Morigaon on west, Nagaon on North NC hills and Nagaland in the south. The district covers an area of 3035 sq.km. The eastern part of this region is plain and the western part is mostly covered with hills. The important rivers of this district are: The Myntriang River, Karbi Langpi River, Kopili river and Amreng river. Among these rivers, Hydro Electric Project have been set up on the Myntriang and Karbi Langpi rivers.

Administration

The district is administrated under

. CEM is the Chief executive of the district, supported by 14 Executive Member of the Council. The Principal Secretary (generally an officer selected from IAS/ACS cadre) of Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council is the administrative head of the district. The Deputy Commissioner is responsible for the maintenance of law & order, and administration of justice. Hamren is the district headquarter. The district has one sub-division, namely Hamren sub-division, and one Revenue circle, Dongkamukam.

Police station

West Karbi Anglong district have three police station namely Hamren PS, Baithalangso PS, Kheroni PS and Zerikingding PS.

Demographics

According to the 2011 census, West Karbi Anglong district, then comprising the Donka revenue circle of the

, had a population of 295,358. Indigenous communities such as Hills Tiwa, Karbis,

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Bodos Boro (बर'/बड़ो ), also called Bodo, is the largest ethnolinguistic group in the Assam state of India. They are a part of the greater Bodo-Kachari family of ethnolinguistic groups and are spread across northeastern India. They are ...

form majority of the population, comprising 193,518 (65.52%) of the population. Scheduled Castes are 11,438 (3.87%) of the population. Other communities that migrated to West Karbi Anglong district include Bengalis, Biharis and Nepalis during the British rule.

Religion

Hinduism is the largest community making up 2,34,833 (79.51%) of the population, while Christians are 56,538 (19.14%). Much of the population practices traditional tribal religion but records their religion as Hindu on the census.

Language

As of the 2011 census, 49.68% of the population spoke Karbi, 10.37%

Bhojpuri Bhojpuri (;Bhojpuri entry, Oxford Dictionaries
, Oxford U ...

, 6.98% Nepali, 5.89%

Bengali Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to: *something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia * Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region * Bengali language, the language they speak ** Bengali alphabet, the w ...

, 5.73%

Garo Garo may refer to: People and languages * Garo people, a tribal people in India ** Garo language, the language spoken by the Garo tribe Places * Kingdom of Garo, a former kingdom in southern Ethiopia * Garo, Colorado * Garo Hills, part of the Ga ...

, 5.43%

Tiwa Tiwa and Tigua may refer to: * Tiwa Puebloans, an ethnic group of New Mexico, US * Tiwa (Lalung), an ethnic group of north-eastern India * Tiwa language (India), a Sino-Tibetan language of India * Tiwa languages, a group of Tanoan languages of the ...

, 4.69% Assamese, 3.27%

Khasi Khasi may refer to: * Khasi people, an ethnic group of Meghalaya, India * Khasi language, a major Austroasiatic language spoken in Meghalaya, India * Khāṣi language, an Indo-Aryan language of Jammu and Kashmir, India See also * Khasi Hills * Gh ...

, 3.18%

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, 1.45% Dimasa and 1.28%

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as their first language.

Transport

The district headquarter Hamren is well connected by road. Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council Transport buses ply at regular intervals from the district headquarters to important places like

Guwahati Guwahati (, ; formerly rendered Gauhati, ) is the biggest city of the Indian state of Assam and also the largest metropolis in northeastern India. Dispur, the capital of Assam, is in the circuit city region located within Guwahati and is the ...

Nagaon Nagaon (previously Nowgong; Assamese নগাঁও), is a town and a municipal board in Nagaon district in the Indian state of Assam. It is situated east of Guwahati. History This division was organised on the both banks of Kalang river by ...

Diphu Diphu (Pron:ˈdɪfu:) is the headquarter of Karbi Anglong district in the state of Assam in India. This small town is a popular tourist hill station for people of nearby cities. Etymology The word ''Diphu'' came from Dimasa language, meaning ' ...

Lanka Lanka (, ) is the name given in Hindu epics to the island fortress capital of the legendary asura king Ravana in the epics of the ''Ramayana'' and the ''Mahabharata''. The fortress was situated on a plateau between three mountain peaks known ...

Hojai Hojai is a town and a municipal board in Hojai district in the Indian States and territories of India, state of Assam. It is located on the banks of the two tributaries of Brahmaputra namely Kapili and Jamuna Etymology The term Hojai means Prie ...

and

Jowai Jowai (IPA: ʤəʊˈwaɪ) is the headquarters of the West Jaintia Hills district of the state of Meghalaya, India, and is home to the Pnar people, Pnar, a sub-tribe of the Khasi people. It is located on a plateau surrounded on three sides by the ...

Notable town and place of interest

* Hamren * Baithalangso * Dongkamukam * Shikdamakha

Notable people

References

External links

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