Dima Hasao district
district of Assam, India
Dima Hasao district (), is an administrative district in the state of Assam, India. As of 2011, it is the least populous district of Assam.
Dima Hasao district is one of two autonomous hill districts of Assam. The district headquarters Haflong is the only hill station in the state.
Etymology
"Dima Hasao" means "Dimasa Hills" in the Dimasa language.
History
Dimasa kingdom
Dima Hasao was part of the Dimasa Kingdom (or Kachar kingdom), with its capital at Maibang and Dimapur. The kingdom stretched from the Kopili river in present-day Nagaon district to the Dikhow River in present-day Upper Assam. This included parts of Cachar, and North Cachar (Dima Hasao), the districts of Hojai, Nagaon, Golaghat, Jorhat of Assam and Dimapur district in Nagaland.
In the colonial period, Khaspur in present-day Cachar district was the administrative centre. However, an internal schism led to the division of the old Kachar Kingdom into two parts.
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