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See also:CACHAR, or KACHAR , a See also:district of See also:British See also:India, in the See also:province of Eastern See also:Bengal and See also:Assam. It occupies the upper See also:basin of the See also:Surma or Barak See also:river, and is bounded on three sides by lofty hills. Its See also:area is 3769 sq. m. It is divided naturally between the See also:plain and hills. The scenery is beautiful, the hills rising generally steeply and being clothed with forests, while the plain is relieved of monotony by small isolated undulations and by its See also:rich vegetation. The Surma is the See also:chief river, and its See also:principal tributaries from the See also:north are the Jiri and Jatinga, and from the See also:south the Sonai and Daleswari. The See also:climate is extremely moist. Several extensive See also:fens, notably that of Chatla, which becomes lakes in See also:time of See also:flood, are characteristic of the plain. This is alluvial and bears heavy crops of See also:rice, next to which in importance is See also:tea. The See also:industry connected with the latter See also:crop employs large See also:numbers of the See also:population; manufacturing See also:industries are otherwise slight. The Assam-Bengal railway serves the district, including the See also:capital See also:town of See also:Silchar. The population of the district in 1901 was 455,593, and showed a large increase, owing in See also:great See also:part to See also:immigration from the adjacent district of See also:Sylhet. The plain is the most thickly populated part of the district; in the North Cachar Hills the population is sparse. About 66 % of the population are See also:Hindus and 29 % Mahommedans. There are three administrative sub-divisions of the district: Silchar, Hailakandi and North Cachar. The district takes name from its former rulers of the Kachari tribe, of whom the first to See also:settle here did so See also:early in the 18th See also:century, after being driven out of the Assam valley in 1536, and from the North Cachar Hills in 1706, by the Ahoms. About the See also:close of the 18th century the Burmans threatened to expel the Kachari See also:raja and annex his territory; the British, however, intervened to prevent this, and on the See also:death of the last raja without See also:heir in 1830 they obtained the territory under treaty. A See also:separate principality which had been established in the North Cachar Hills earlier in the century by a servant of the raja, and had been subsequently recognized as such, was taken over by the British in 1854 owing to the misconduct of its rulers. The See also:southern part of the district was raided several times in" the 19th century by the turbulent tribe of Lushais. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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