About Assam

        Assam: the state of possibility

This beautiful part of land was previously known as Kamrup and Pragjyotishpur and its capital Pragjyoitshpur was the first capital (lighting town of east). In the 13^th century, the Ahom(a tribe) after winning the place name it Assam. In the history, literature and the biographies from 15^th century the names “Asom”, “Assam”,”Assom”,”Aasam”,”Ahom” etc are known.

         

          According to the scholars the name comes from-

“As the place is full of mountain and hills and so it is not plain. That is why it is known as “Asom”. Some other says there is no such natural beauty is found in any other place like Assam. So it is known as “Asom”. Some other scholars say that this place was ruled by Ahom and the word “Asom” is derived from the word Ahom.

         

        Another derivation is:

 Beden Powel in his book “Indian Village community” mentioned that the word “Asom” is derived from the bodo word “Su-Sum” which means plane. 

Location:

The beautiful land of natural beauty is situated in north east corner of India. It is extending from 80 degree 42min E to 96 degree E longitude and 24 degree 8 min to 28 degree 2 min N latitude has an area of 78438 km sq. similar to that of Ireland and Austria.

Surrounding:

North: Arunachal Pradesh and Bhutan

East: Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Manipur

West: Mizoram and Tripura

South: Meghalaya, Bangladesh and West Bengal

Climate Characteristics:

Assam is mainly in temperate region and experience heavy rainfall and humidity. The climate of Assam has four seasons, namely:  

Winter

Pre monsoon     
Monsoon     
North Monsoon

Winter last from November to January. From February to April its Pre monsoon and Monsoon is from May to July. From August to October Assam faces North Monsoons. The temperature of Assam is relatively low comparing to the other places of India. In winter also, the level of coldness is not that much high.

Assam Population

As per details from Census 2011, Assam has population of 3.12 Crores, an increase from figure of 2.67 Crore in 2001 census. Total population of Assam as per 2011 census is 31,205,576 of which male and female are 15,939,443 and 15,266,133 respectively. In 2001, total population was 26,655,528 in which males were 13,777,037 while females were 12,878,491.

Assam Literacy Rate

Literacy rate in Assam has seen upward trend and is 72.19 percent as per 2011 population census. Of that, male literacy stands at 77.85 percent while female literacy is at 63.00 percent. In 2001, literacy rate in Assam stood at 63.25 percent of which male and female were 75.23 percent and 51.85 percent literate respectively.
In actual numbers, total literates in Assam stands at 19,177,977 of which males were 10,568,639 and females were 8,609,338.

Assam Sex Ratio

Sex Ratio in Assam is 958 i.e. for each 1000 male, which is below national average of 940 as per census 2011. In 2001, the sex ratio of female was 932 per 1000 males in Assam.