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Dictionaries
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Assam, British India, Prefecture Apostolic of
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Assam
• Eastern Bengal and Assam
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Assam
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Assam`
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Assam

A province E. of Bengal, ceded to Britain after the Burmese war in 1826; being an alluvial plain, with ranges of hills along the Brahmapootra, 450 m. long and 50 broad; the low lands extremely fertile and productive, and the hills covered with tea plantations, yielding at one time, if not still, three-fourths of the tea raised in India.