Karimganj District
Karimganj district is one of the 31 districts of Assam state of India. Karimganj town is the headquarter of the district and the largest town of this district. The history of Karimganj district is very interesting. Before the partition of India, Karimganj was part of Sylhet district. In 1878 under British rule, Karimganj was declared a sub-division of Sylhet district with its headquarters in Karimganj town. Eventually, after India gained independence in the year 1947, most of Sylhet district merged into East Pakistan, which then emerged as an independent nation called Bangladesh in 1971. This brief Karimganj sub-division was included as a full-fledged sub-division in the Cachar district of Assam. Later on July 1, 1983, the status of Karimganj as a sub-division was upgraded to a district. And then Karimganj town was declared the district headquarters of the newly formed district, Karimganj. Area Spread over an area of 1,809 sq km, the district is bordered by Hailakandi, Cachar dis