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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 837 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DARRANG , a See also:

district of See also:British See also:India, in the provin* of Eastern See also:Bengal and See also:Assam. It lies between the See also:Bhutan and See also:Daphla Hills and the See also:Brahmaputra, including many islands in the See also:river. The administrative headquarters are at See also:Tezpur. Its See also:area is 3418 sq. m. It is for the most See also:part a level See also:plain watered by many tributaries of the Brahmaputra. The two subdivisions of Tezpur Mangaldai differ greatly in See also:character. Tezpur is part of Upper Assam and shares in the prosperity which See also:tea cultivation has brought to that part of the valley. In this portion of the district there are still large areas of excellent See also:land awaiting See also:settlement, and the See also:cultivator finds a See also:market for his produce in the flourishing tea-gardens, to which large quantities of coolies are imported every See also:year. In Mangaldai, on the other See also:hand, most of the See also:good See also:rice land was settled about 1880-1890 when the subdivision had a See also:population of 146 to the square mile, as against 42 for Tezpur ; the See also:soil is not favourable for tea, and the population is stationary or receding. In 19o1 the population of the whole district was 337,313, showing an increase of 1o% in the See also:decade. The See also:principal See also:grain-See also:crop is rice. The principal means of communication is by river.

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steam See also:tramway of 22 ft. See also:gauge has been opened from Tezpur to Balipara, a distance of 20 M. Darrang originally formed, according to tradition, part of the dominions of Bana See also:Raja, who was defeated by See also:Krishna in a See also:battle near Tezpur (" the See also:town of See also:blood "). The massive See also:granite ruins found near by prove that the See also:place must have been the seat of powerful and civilized rulers. In the 16th See also:century Darrang was subject to the See also:Koch See also:king of Kamarupa, Nar Narayan, and on the See also:division of his dominions among his heirs passed to an See also:independent See also:line of rajas. See also:Early in the 17th century the raja See also:Bali Narayan invoked the aid of the Ahoms of Upper Assam against the Mussulman invaders; after his defeat and See also:death in 1637 the Ahoms dominated the whole district, and the Darrang rajas sank into See also:petty feudatories. About 1785 they took See also:advantage of the decay of the See also:Ahom See also:kingdom to try and re-establish their See also:independence, but they were defeated by a British expedition in 1792, and in 1826 Darrang, with the See also:rest of Assam, passed under British See also:control.

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