Author name: Arijit Purkayastha

Travelling around what once was ancient Kamrupa, without being navigated by a Google Map, is truly great fun. Abundantly blessed with archaeological sites, ancient Kamarupa lets you experience what is now loved as Slow Tourism—an engagement with local culture as you savour each moment along unknown paths. The funda is simple—break the route into parts, […]

Driving 165 km from BorghatChariali of Nagaon District(GolChakkar , road junction) towards Lanka, you reach Maibong (290 kms from Guwahati), once the capital of Dimasa-Kachari kings. Here, at Stone House, a rock-cut chala type of monolithic hut, you immediately feel the regal era of yore. Beautifully carved on a big granite boulder and dating to the 16th century,

KarbiAnglong is the heart of Assam; but surprisingly, it is least visited. A picturesque land of Anglong – homonym noun for hills and mountains – and home to the Karbi tribe, your first stop here would be Umswai Valley, 100 km from Guwahati and Assam’s very own bamboo county. Spend a night amidst these groves surrounded by hills,

Driving 165 km from Borghat Chariali of Nagaon District (Gol Chakkar , road junction) towards Lanka, you reach Maibong (290 kms from Guwahati), once the capital of Dimasa-Kachari kings. Here, at Stone House, a rock-cut chala type of monolithic hut, you immediately feel the regal era of yore. Beautifully carved on a big granite boulder and dating

Ambari Site situated at the centre of Guwahati city is one of the important archaeological site of North-eastern part of India and only important historical habitation settlement site representing artisans’ workshop and production centre of art activities of Assam. As per archaeological evidences, the site represents different cultural sequence from the 2nd century B.C.E to

The Ahoms:  By the thirteenth century, the Ahoms, a Shan tribe entered into the Upper Assam through Patkai hills under the able leadership of Sukapha (CE 1128-68). Subsequent Ahom rulers brought entire Brahmaputra valley under their domain and ruled upto AD 1826. Afterwards the British rule commenced in Assam. Some of the kingdoms contemporary to

The Allahabad Pillar Inscription of Samudragupta (AD 335-75) refers ‘Davaka’ and ‘Kamrupa’ as the frontier kingdoms of the Gupta empire. ‘Davaka’ is identified as ‘Davaka’ in the Nagaon District whereas ‘Kamrupa’ with Assam respectively. The place is referred as Kamrupa – Pragjyotishapura in the epics and the classical Sanskrit works of Kalika Purana and Yogini

Ruins of an ancient stone temple are found scattered, both on the bank of Harhariya Jan  and inside the river bed located at Behbari near Singimari (about 16 kms from Septi Chowk, Rangia).. The temple ruins to be datable to c.10th-11th C.E  (according to Directorate of Archaeology, Government of Assam ). Nearby the Bhairabeswari temple,

This is  a  brick temple built  during  the  reign  of the Ahom King Rajeswar Singha (1751 – 1769 CE) in c. CE 1764. The site has evidence of a stone temple which once stood at this spot around 1000-1100 CE A brick temple has been built upon the remains of the stone temple of an

Sualkuchi is a place you can visit any time of the year. You can walk through its narrow lanes, pop into any of its numerous karkhanas, and simply stand awed as artisans weave intricate patterns on golden muga. You can also be part of the merriment of its Doul Utsav or the ceremonies of Guru-jayanti, Mahapurush Srimanta Sankardev’s birth anniversary. Sualkuchi’s