of eastern Bengal and Assam, of which it is the head-quarters, situated on the Dibru river about 4 M. above its confluence with the Brahmaputra. Pop. (Igor) 11,227. It is the terminus of steamer navigation on the Brahmaputra, and also of a railway running to important coal-mines and petroleum wells, which connects with the Assam-Bengal
. Large quantities of coal and tea are exported. There are a military cantonment, the headquarters of the volunteer corps known as the Assam Valley Light
; a government high, school, a training school for masters; and an aided school for girls. In 1900 a medical school for the province was established, out of a bequest leftby Brigade-Surgeon J.
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