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Gauhati

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Guwahati

 or Gauhati

City (pop., 2001: 809,895), western Assam state, northeastern India. Located on the Brahmaputra River, it was the capital of the Hindu kingdom of Kamarupa (under the name of Pragjyotisa) c. AD 400. Taken by the Ahoms, it became the seat of the Ahom governor of Lower Assam in 1681. It was ceded to the British in 1826 and was the administrative seat for Assam until 1874. Guwahati is now an important river port and Assam's main commercial centre. The nearby temples of Kamakhya and Umananda are places of Hindu pilgrimage.


Gauhati
a city in NE India, in Assam on the River Brahmaputra: centre of British administration in Assam (1826--74). Pop.: 808 021 (2001)


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