Assam Province
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Assam Province was a province of British India, created in 1912 by the partition of the Eastern Bengal and Assam Province. Its capital was in Shillong.
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North-East Frontier (1874–1905) Assam Province (1912–1947) | |||||||||||||
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Province of British India | |||||||||||||
1874-1947 | |||||||||||||
Assam Province in 1936 | |||||||||||||
Capital | Shillong | ||||||||||||
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• 1901 | 121,908[1][2] km2 (47,069 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
• 1914 | 202,270[3] km2 (78,100 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
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• Bifurcation of Eastern Bengal and Assam | 1912 | ||||||||||||
1914 | |||||||||||||
15 August 1947 | |||||||||||||
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The Assam territory was first separated from Bengal in 1874 as the 'North-East Frontier' non-regulation province. It was incorporated into the new province of Eastern Bengal and Assam in 1905 and re-established as a province in 1912.