Carefully sourced stories from the history of Assam and North-East India.
Kamatapur was a real medieval kingdom, but it is not a state today. A carefully sourced history of the Kamata and Koch kingdoms, Cooch Behar’s merger, and the current status of the Koch-Rajbongshi people.
Assam’s tea industry was built by Adivasi workers recruited from central and eastern India under harsh contracts. The history of recruitment, laws, resistance and the tea community today.
From the Udayachal demand of 1967 to the Bodo Accord of 2020: a step-by-step, neutral history of how the Bodoland Territorial Region was formed and how it is governed today.
For almost a century, Shillong was Assam’s capital. Then Meghalaya was born. Here’s the full story of how and why the capital moved to Dispur, from 1874 to the new Assembly of 2023.