Assam, told through its stories.

Assam is India’s long green valley in the far northeast, carved by the Brahmaputra. This is a living archive of its wiki and stories, with new chapters unfolding over time.

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A glimpse of Assam

The places, the kingdoms, the communities, the faiths, the festival year, and the food. Open the full wiki for everything else.

Three-quarter view of the Kareng Ghar at Garhgaon, the tiered brick Ahom palace seen from the front-left across lawns and flowering shrubs, brick paths converging toward it under a cloud-streaked sky

Kingdoms & Periods

The main polities of greater Assam, from deep past to republic.

Ahom

A greater one-horned rhinoceros standing in green grassland, its single horn and armour-plated hide clearly visible

Places

Places to visit, grouped by type.

Kaziranga National Park · Kamakhya Temple · Majuli

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Assamese miniature painting of the Ahom king Rudra Singha seated on a throne under a canopy with attendants

Figures

The people who shaped Assam's history and culture.

Lachit Borphukan · Srimanta Sankardev · Sukaphaa

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Young women in red-and-cream mekhela sador dancing in a ring in a village yard, with male drummers at the edge

Communities

The communities of the valley and hills.

The Assamese (Asamiya) · Tai-Ahom

The Kamakhya temple complex lit at night: a cream-and-gold mandapa with a red-banded base in front, dark stone beehive shikharas of the sanctum and subsidiary shrines rising behind, stone steps descending at left

Religion

Layered religious traditions across Assam.

Saktism · Neo-Vaishnavism (Ekasarana Dharma)

A young man in a Bihu gamosa headband playing the pepa, a buffalo-horn pipe, in close-up, with a woman dancer in red Bihu costume posed behind him in a field

Festivals

The seasonal calendar of Assam's communities.

Rongali Bihu (Bohag Bihu) · Magh Bihu (Bhogali Bihu) · Ambubachi Mela

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