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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 532 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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town of See also:British See also:India, in the See also:Kamrup See also:district of Eastern See also:Bengal and See also:Assam, mainly on the See also:left or See also:south, but partly on the right See also:bank of the See also:Brahmaputra. Pop. (1901) 14,244. It is beautifully situated, with an See also:amphitheatre of wooded hills to the south, but is not very healthy. There are many evidences, such as See also:ancient earthworks and tanks, of its See also:historical importance. During the 17th See also:century it was taken and retaken by Mahommedans and Ahoms eight times in fifty years, but in 1681 it became the See also:residence of the See also:Ahom See also:governor of See also:lower Assam, and in 1786 the See also:capital of the Ahom See also:raja. On the cession of Assam to the British in 1826 it was made the seat of the British See also:administration of Assam, and so continued till 1874, when the headquarters were removed to See also:Shillong in the Khasi hills, 67 m. distant, with which Gauhati is connected by an excellent See also:cart-road. Two much-frequented places of See also:Hindu See also:pilgrimage are situated in the immediate vicinity, the See also:temple of Kamakhya on a See also:hill 2 in. See also:west of the town, and the rocky See also:island of Umananda in the See also:mid-channel of the Brahmaputra. Gauhati is still the headquarters of the district and of the Brahmaputra Valley See also:division, though no longer a military See also:cantonment. It is the See also:river See also:terminus of a See also:section of the Assam-Bengal railway. There are a second-grade See also:college, a See also:government high school, a See also:law class and a training school for masters. Gauhati is an important centre of river See also:trade, and the largest seat of See also:commerce in Assam.

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Cotton-ginning, See also:flour-milling, and an export trade in See also:mustard See also:seed, cotton, See also:silk and See also:forest produce are carried on. Gauhati suffered very severely from the See also:earth-quake of the 12th of See also:June 1897.

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