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Garos (peuple)
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Assamese people
The Assamese people are a socio-ethnic linguistic identity that has been described at various times as nationalistic or micro-nationalistic. This group is often associated with the Assamese language, the easternmost Indo-Aryan language, and Assamese people mostly live in the Brahmaputra Valley region of Assam, where they are native and constitute around 56% of the Valley's population. The use of the term precedes the name of the language or the people. It has also been used retrospectively to the people of Assam before the term "Assamese" came into use.
Brahmaputra Valley
The Brahmaputra Valley is a region situated between hill ranges of the eastern and northeastern Himalayan range in Eastern India. The valley consists of the Western Brahmaputra Valley covering the regions of Goalpara and Kamrup; the Central Brahmaputra Valley region covering Darrang, Nagaon and the North Bank and Eastern Brahmaputra Valley comprising districts of Sonitpur, Lakhimpur, Dibrugarh and Sibsagar. The Teesta River in North Bengal also drains into Brahmaputra River.
Khasi (peuple)
Les Khasis (खासी) sont un groupe ethnique de langue môn-khmer habitant : en Inde dans les États du Meghalaya (notamment dans les districts des monts Khasi), de l'Arunachal Pradesh, de l'Assam, du Bengale-Occidental, du Maharashtra, du Mizoram, du Tamil Nadu et du Tripura et les Îles Nicobar, où ils sont au nombre de . au Bangladesh, où ils sont . Traditionnellement, les Khasis parlent la langue khasi et aussi l'anglais et l'hindi. Les Khasi appartiennent à un sous-ensemble des Wa, qui peuplaient autrefois toute cette région.
Wangala
Wangala is also called the festival of "The Hundred Drums", a harvest festival celebrated by the Garo tribe, who live in Meghalaya, Nagaland and Assam in India and Greater Mymensingh in Bangladesh. In this post harvest festival, they give thanks to Misi Saljong the sun god, for blessing the people with a rich harvest. Wangala is celebrated in the months from September to December, with different villages setting different dates for the occasion.
Khasi (montagne)
The Khasi Hills (ˈkɑːsi) are a low mountain formation on the Shillong Plateau in the Meghalaya state of India. The Khasi Hills are part of the Garo-Khasi-Jaintia range and connect with the Purvanchal Range and larger Patkai Range further east. The Khasi Hills, and the whole Garo-Khasi-Jaintia range, are in the Meghalaya subtropical forests ecoregion. The Khasi Hills, and the entire Meghalaya state, was administratively part of Assam before 1970. In older sources in particular, the alternative transcription Khasia Hills is seen.
Inde du Nord-Est
vignette|Une carte des "Sept États sœurs". Le Nord-Est indien est une zone géographique de la République indienne formant une communauté politique et économique de huit États au nord-est de celle-ci. Il regroupe le Sikkim, l'Arunachal Pradesh, l'Assam, Manipur, le Meghalaya, Mizoram, le Nagaland et Tripura. Cette zone est linguistiquement et culturellement très différente de ce que l'on rencontre dans le reste de l'Inde. Un grand nombre d'habitants de ces États parlent des langues tibéto-birmanes et ont une culture proche de celle des autres pays d'Asie du Sud-Est et du Tibet.
Mymensingh
Mymensingh (ময়মনসিংহ) is the capital of Mymensingh Division, Bangladesh. Located on the bank of Brahmaputra River, about north of the national capital Dhaka, it is a major financial center and educational hub of north-central Bangladesh. The city was constituted by the British East India Company on 1 May 1787. Mymensingh is the 8th administrative divisional headquarter and 12th city corporation of Bangladesh. According to Ministry of Public Administration, Mymensingh is ranked 4th in district status.
Dimasa people
The Dimasa people (dimāsā) are an ethnolinguistic community presently inhabiting in Assam and Nagaland states in Northeastern India. They speak Dimasa, a Tibeto-Burman language. This community is fairly homogeneous and exclusive, with members required to draw from both parents' separate clans. Dimasa kingdom, one of many early states in Assam following the downfall of Kamarupa kingdom, was established by these people. The Dimasas were till recently agricultural, centering on shifting agriculture; but in recent times this has changed with profound changes in the community.
Koch dynasty
The Koch dynasty (Pron: kɒʧ; 1515–1949) ruled parts of eastern Indian subcontinent in present-day Assam and Bengal. Biswa Singha established power in the erstwhile Kamata Kingdom which had emerged from the decaying Kamarupa Kingdom. The dynasty came to power by removing the Baro-Bhuyans, who had earlier removed the short-lived rule established by Alauddin Hussain Shah. The dynasty split into three among the descendants of Biswa Singha's three sons; two antagonistic branches Koch Bihar and Koch Hajo and a third branch at Khaspur.
Raj britannique
Le Raj britannique (du hindi rāj, qui signifie « règne » ; en British Raj) est le régime colonial britannique qu'a connu le sous-continent indien de 1858 à 1947. Le Raj débute en 1858 par le transfert des possessions de la Compagnie des Indes orientales à la Couronne britannique en la personne de la reine Victoria, proclamée impératrice des Indes en 1876. Il s'étend principalement sur les territoires qui forment aujourd'hui l'Inde, le Pakistan et le Bangladesh, ainsi que sur la Birmanie jusqu'en 1937, regroupant des provinces sous administration directe et des États princiers sous suzeraineté.