Assam GK Notes 2026: Important Facts for ADRE, APSC & Assam Police

🕑 Last updated 27 Oct 2026

Assam GK carries real weight in almost every Assam recruitment exam: ADRE, APSC CCE, Assam Police, TET and many departmental exams. Questions come from a fairly fixed pool of topics: Ahom history, Srimanta Sankardev and Vaishnavite culture, Bihu and other festivals, rivers, national parks, bridges and important institutions. These notes collect the most-asked facts in one place, topic by topic, for quick revision.

These notes cover stable, well-established facts. For current affairs (new schemes, appointments, recent events), follow a newspaper or monthly current-affairs magazine as well.

📋 At a Glance

Useful for	ADRE, APSC CCE, Assam Police (SLPRB), Assam TET, Gauhati High Court and other Assam exams
Topics	History · Culture · Geography · Wildlife · Places & institutions · Polity
Facts in these notes	87, each also a question in the daily quiz
Practice	Assam GK Daily Quiz — 10 new questions every day

🏰 History of Assam

• Chaolung Sukaphaa crossed the Patkai hills and founded the Ahom kingdom in 1228.
• At Saraighat the Ahom army under Lachit Borphukan defeated the Mughal force led by Ram Singh.
• Lachit Borphukan commanded the Ahom forces at Saraighat in 1671.
• Lachit Divas, on 24 November, marks the birth anniversary of Lachit Borphukan.
• The Treaty of Yandabo ended the First Anglo-Burmese War and Assam passed to the British.
• Ahom rule lasted from 1228 to 1826, nearly six centuries.
• Ahom kings were called Swargadeo, meaning "lord of heaven".
• Under the Paik system adult men served the state in rotation as labourers or soldiers.
• The Moamoria rebellion was an uprising against the Ahom kingdom.
• The Rang Ghar, a two-storey pavilion for watching games, was built in the reign of Pramatta Singha.
• Rajeswar Singha built the multi-storey Talatal Ghar palace.
• Sukaphaa established his capital at Charaideo, the site of the royal moidams.
• The moidams (Ahom royal burial mounds) of Charaideo became a World Heritage Site in 2024.
• The Assam Accord was signed on 15 August 1985, ending the Assam Movement.
• Kanaklata Barua was shot while leading a procession to hoist the flag at Gohpur police station during the Quit India Movement.
• Gopinath Bordoloi was the first Chief Minister of Assam and was awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1999.
• Maniram Dewan was the first Indian to set up tea gardens in Assam and was executed for his role in 1857.
• In ancient texts the kingdom of Kamarupa is called Pragjyotisha, with its capital Pragjyotishpura.
• Hiuen Tsang visited Bhaskaravarman, a contemporary of Harshavardhana, in the 7th century.
• The Battle of Itakhuli in 1682, under Gadadhar Singha, ended Mughal control of Guwahati.

🎭 Culture, Literature & Festivals

• Sankardev founded Ek Sarana Nama Dharma, the neo-Vaishnavite movement of Assam.
• Sankardev was born at Alipukhuri near Bordowa in present-day Nagaon district.
• Madhavdev succeeded Sankardev as the head of the movement.
• Borgeets were composed by Srimanta Sankardev and Madhavdev.
• The Sangeet Natak Akademi recognised Sattriya as a classical dance in 2000.
• Sankardev introduced the dance form in the satras as part of Vaishnavite worship.
• Joymoti (1935), made by Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, was the first Assamese film.
• Jyoti Prasad Agarwala is called Rupkonwar.
• Bishnu Prasad Rabha is honoured as Kalaguru.
• Bhupen Hazarika is known as Sudhakantha.
• He was awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously in 2019.
• Lakshminath Bezbaroa, known as Sahityarathi, wrote the state song.
• Lakshminath Bezbaroa is called Sahityarathi.
• Orunodoi was published from Sibsagar by American Baptist missionaries.
• Rongali or Bohag Bihu in mid-April welcomes the Assamese New Year.
• Magh Bihu in mid-January is the harvest festival with feasts and meji bonfires.
• Kati Bihu is observed in mid-October when the granaries are empty, with lamps lit in the fields.
• Bwisagu is the Bodo New Year festival celebrated in April.
• Ali-Ai-Ligang is the sowing festival of the Mising community.
• Me-Dam-Me-Phi is the Ahom festival of ancestor worship.
• The Jonbeel Mela near Jagiroad in Morigaon district is famous for barter between hill and plains people.
• Ambubachi Mela is held every June at Kamakhya Temple on Nilachal Hill, Guwahati.
• Sualkuchi is a famous silk-weaving village, often called the "Manchester of Assam".
• Muga is the naturally golden silk unique to Assam and has a GI tag.
• Sarthebari is known for its bell-metal craft.
• The satras of Majuli, such as Samaguri Satra, are famous for mask-making.
• Hajo has the Hayagriva Madhava temple and the Poa Mecca mosque, revered by several faiths.

🏞 Geography, Rivers & Industry

• The Brahmaputra flows across Tibet as the Yarlung Tsangpo.
• The Barak river flows through Cachar and gives the valley its name.
• Majuli was made a district in 2016, the first river island district in India.
• Umananda (Peacock Island) lies in the Brahmaputra opposite Guwahati.
• Haflong in Dima Hasao is Assam's hill station.
• Jatinga village is near Haflong in Dima Hasao district.
• Deepor Beel lies on the south-west edge of Guwahati.
• Chandubi Lake was created by the Great Assam Earthquake of 1897.
• Assam borders Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Meghalaya and West Bengal.
• Assam has international borders with Bhutan and Bangladesh.
• The Subansiri, which enters Assam from Arunachal Pradesh, is the largest tributary of the Brahmaputra.
• Digboi refinery, started in 1901, is among the oldest working oil refineries in the world.
• Numaligarh Refinery is in Golaghat district.
• Chabua is associated with the first experimental tea plantations in Assam in the 1830s.

🦏 Wildlife, National Parks & State Symbols

• Kaziranga holds the largest population of the Indian one-horned rhinoceros.
• Kaziranga and Manas were both inscribed as World Heritage Sites in 1985.
• Manas adjoins the Royal Manas National Park of Bhutan.
• Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary in Morigaon has the highest rhino density.
• The sanctuary near Mariani in Jorhat district protects the hoolock gibbon.
• Orang National Park, on the north bank of the Brahmaputra, is called mini Kaziranga.
• Dehing Patkai Wildlife Sanctuary became a national park in 2021.
• The one-horned rhinoceros is the state animal of Assam.
• The white-winged wood duck (Deo Hans) is the state bird.
• The foxtail orchid, Kopou phool, is the state flower and is used in Bihu.
• The tall Hollong (Dipterocarpus macrocarpus) is the state tree.

🏛 Places, Bridges & Institutions

• The bridge over the Lohit river is named Bhupen Hazarika Setu.
• Bogibeel bridge crosses the Brahmaputra near Dibrugarh.
• Saraighat bridge near Guwahati was the first rail-cum-road bridge over the Brahmaputra.
• Kolia Bhomora Setu crosses the Brahmaputra near Tezpur.
• Kamakhya Temple is on Nilachal Hill in Guwahati.
• Dispur, a locality of Guwahati, is the capital of Assam.
• Assam Rifles, India's oldest paramilitary force, is headquartered in Shillong.
• Gauhati University, the first university of Assam, was established in 1948.
• Cotton College in Guwahati was founded in 1901.
• IIT Guwahati, the sixth IIT, was established in 1994.
• The Gauhati High Court was established in 1948.

⚖ Polity & Administration

• Assam elects 14 members to the Lok Sabha.
• Assam has 7 seats in the Rajya Sabha.
• The Assam Legislative Assembly has 126 seats.
• The Bodoland Territorial Region, Karbi Anglong and Dima Hasao are Sixth Schedule areas.

🧠 Test Yourself

Every fact above is also a question in our free Assam GK Daily Quiz: 10 new questions every day with explanations. Take it daily to fix these facts in memory.

🗓 Study Plan

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