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SURMA, or BARAK

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 136 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SURMA, or BARAK , a See also:river of See also:Assam, See also:India. It is one of the two See also:chief See also:rivers of the See also:province, watering the See also:southern valley as the See also:Brahmaputra See also:waters the See also:northern and larger valley. It rises in the Barail range to the See also:north of See also:Manipur, its See also:sources being among the southern spurs of Japvo. Thence its course is See also:south with a slight See also:westerly bearing, through the Manipur hills to See also:British territory. The name of Barak is given to the upper See also:part of the river, in Manipur and See also:Cachar. A See also:short distance below Badarpur in Cachar it divides into two branches. One of these, which passes See also:Sylhet, is called Surma. The other is called Kusiara till it subdivides into (a) a See also:branch called Bibiana or Kalni, which joins the Surma near Ajmiriganj, and (b) a branch which resumes the name of Barak and joins the Surma near Habiganj. At Bhairab Bazar in See also:Mymensingh the Surma unites with the old Brahmaputra and becomes known as the See also:Meghna. The river is navigable by steamers as far as See also:Silchar in the rains. See also:Total length about 56o m. The SURMA VALLEY AND See also:HILL DISTRICTS See also:DIVISION IS a division of the province of Eastern See also:Bengal and Assam.

It includes the five districts of Sylhet Cachar, Lushai hills, Naga hills, and Khasi and Jaintia hills, with a total See also:

area of 25,481 sq. m. and a See also:population in 1901 of 3,084,527.

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