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Assam (?s-s?m?), a province of British India, situated north of Burma in the valley of the Brahmaputra, acquired by the British in the Burmese War in 1824, and now under the jurisdiction of a British Chief Commissioner. Its area, still largely covered with jungle, in which roam elephants, tigers, leopards and other wild beasts, is 49,004 square miles in extent, with a population, chiefly Hindus and Mohammedans, of about five and a half million.

Assam has a heavy annual rainfall, with a climate of moderate temperature; the region, however, is subject to earthquakes. Its chief exports embrace tea, rice, rubber, silk, cotton, ivory and gold; it has also much coal; while petroleum and iron, though as yet undeveloped, are known to exist. In the higher elevations there is much timber. The soil in the valleys and along its chief river, the Brahmaputra, is very fertile, though the excessive rains inundate the land and at seasons imperil the tea-plantations and the rice crop.

References:

See Cumming’s With the Jungle Folk and Hunter’s Statistical Account of Assam; also Bronson’s Dictionary in Assamese and English.

The New Student's Reference Work (1914)

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Images

Image Name
Illustrations of the Meterology of India and High Asia [I]
Panorama Profiles [III]
(1-2) Leaf Insect of Assam (male & female) (3) Saiknah Caterpillar (butterfly)
The Peaks and Glaciers of the Sasser Pass in Nuba Tibet [I]
Garrow Warrior
Statistics of Assam
Buffalo Shooting in Assam
Routes in High Asia
Village of Mangeldai in Assam
The Salt Lake Tso Gam in Eastern Ladak Tibet
Back Cover
Leh the Capital of Ladak in Western Tibet
(1) Mangoe Fly (2) Queen (or Arrindy) Silkworm of Assam (3) Long Horned Beetle
The Ganges near Patna Western Bengal
Nagas
he Bias Between Amritsar and Jalander Panjab
Interior of the Buddhistic Temple of the Monastery Mangnang in Gnari Khorsum
The Jhilum or Behut in the Panjab
Cane Suspension Bridge Over the Temshang River in the Khassia Hills
Colored Wrapper Front Cover
Buffalo Heads in Assam
Palm Grove and Singhalese Habitations near Galle Ceylon
A Dufflah / A Dufflah Chief's Widow / A Dufflah Chief
Part II Colored Wrapper
The Chorkonda Glacier in Balti Tibet
Gaurisankar or Mount Everest in the Himalaya of Nepal
Panorama Profiles [VII]
The Chain of the Kuenluen from Sumgal in Turkistan
Naga Mode of Disposing of the Dead on a Bier or Platform
The Drift Sands in the Interior of the Sindh Sager Duab Panjab
Cheegee Kuppachor Akha, brother of the Tagee Rajah / Kuppachor Akha, Tagee Rajah
Omanund Island opposite Gowahatty
Panorama of the Lake and the Gardens near Srinagar Kashmir Northern Aspect
List of the Last Kings of Assam
Panorama Profiles [II]
Gowahatty
Illustrations of the Meterology of India and High Asia [IV]
An Assamese Gentleman and A Meree Woman
(1) Vampire of Fox Bat (2) Tiger Beetle of Assam (3) Hercules Beetle of Assam
Part IV Colored Wrapper
The Jhils of Bengal at High Water
The Satlej Valley and the Environs of Rampur in the Western Himalaya
Alluvial High Ground On the Western Border of the Sindh Sager Duab Panjab
Index Map of Routes
The Summit of Parisnath in Bahar
The Summit of Kanchinjinga in the Himalaya of Sikkim
Magnetic Survey of India and High Asia [II]
The Valley of the Yarkand River Downwards from Dera Bullu in Turkistan
The Salt Lake Tsomognalari in Pangkong Western Tibet
Central Assam and the Brahmaputra Jungles from Ogri Hill near Tezpur
Panorama Profiles [IV]
A Booteah Servant
The Salt Lake Kiuk Kiol in the Karakash Valley Turkistan
Panorama Profiles [V]
Magnetic Survey of India and High Asia [III]
Title Page
The Flats of the Hiron Valley from the Barer Plateau near Kattingi Central India
The Buddhist Monastery Himis near Leh in Ladak
Magnetic Survey of India and High Asia [I]
Alluvial Deposits in the Brahmaputra Above Rakusni Hill Assam
Panorama of the Lake and the Gardens near Srinagar Kashmir Southern Aspect
Title Page
Angamee Naga Warrior
Illustrations of the Meterology of India and High Asia [III]
The Kunda Range in the Nilgiris Southern India
Part III Colored Wrapper
Panorama Profiles [I] the Himalaya of Bhutan Sikkim and Nepal
Illustrations of the Meterology of India and High Asia [II]
Fort and Lines of Udelguri in the Province of Darrang Assam
Panorama Profiles [VI]
The Peaks and Glaciers of the Sasser Pass in Nuba Tibet [II]
Cheingtanjing, Booteah Rajah / Gelae, Booteah Rajah
The Mahanadi River in the Rainy Season Central Bengal
The Salt Lake Tso Mitbal in Pangkong Tibet
Facsimile of a Bhutia Map
The Salt Lake Tsomoriri in Rupchu Western Tibet

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