{"id":631,"date":"2015-06-28T12:21:43","date_gmt":"2015-06-28T12:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saralstudy.com\/blog\/?p=631"},"modified":"2020-10-04T18:57:21","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T18:57:21","slug":"assam-the-tea-king-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saralstudy.com\/blog\/assam-the-tea-king-of-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Assam &#8211; The Tea King of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 eztoc-toggle-hide-by-default' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.saralstudy.com\/blog\/assam-the-tea-king-of-india\/#Introduction\" >Introduction<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.saralstudy.com\/blog\/assam-the-tea-king-of-india\/#Capital\" >Capital<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.saralstudy.com\/blog\/assam-the-tea-king-of-india\/#Culture\" >Culture<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.saralstudy.com\/blog\/assam-the-tea-king-of-india\/#Weather\" >Weather<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.saralstudy.com\/blog\/assam-the-tea-king-of-india\/#Lifestyle\" >Lifestyle<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.saralstudy.com\/blog\/assam-the-tea-king-of-india\/#Major_festivals\" >Major festivals<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.saralstudy.com\/blog\/assam-the-tea-king-of-india\/#Major_crops\" >Major crops<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.saralstudy.com\/blog\/assam-the-tea-king-of-india\/#Costumes_and_ornaments\" >Costumes and ornaments<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.saralstudy.com\/blog\/assam-the-tea-king-of-india\/#Tourist_attractions\" >Tourist attractions<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-10\" href=\"https:\/\/www.saralstudy.com\/blog\/assam-the-tea-king-of-india\/#Kinds_of_homes\" >Kinds of homes<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-11\" href=\"https:\/\/www.saralstudy.com\/blog\/assam-the-tea-king-of-india\/#Famous_personalities\" >Famous personalities<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Introduction\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Introduction<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Assam has an amazing aura with vast fields of tea and exquisite gardens of unique trees and herbal plants. Assam is located in the extreme northeastern part of India and is surrounded by Nagaland in the east, west Bengal in the west, Bhutan in the north and Mizoram and Tripura in the south. it is considered as a place of divine beauty and peace.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Capital\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Capital<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Guwahati is the capital of the state and gets its name from an amalgamation of two words,guwa and hati, which means the betel nut and a little market together. People here are extremely gentle and humble. Guwahati is home to many beautiful and eye catching locations of the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Culture\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Culture<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Assam is mainly a forest oriented place with most of its culture influenced from the forest products itself. The state specializes in mat making, pottery, bamboo and cane furniture, mat making, woodwork and weaving handloom.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Weather\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Weather<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The weather of Assam is marked by extreme humidity. On the hills, climate is salubrious while the plains experience comparatively warmer climate in summers and cool in winters. During summers, when the rest of the country experiences summers, Assam receives a considerable amount of rainfall from the northwestern winds and is responsible to lower the temperatures during summers. Winters are colder dropping the temperatures to around 8 degrees.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Lifestyle\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lifestyle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People in Assam enjoy a unique lifestyle. They wear different kinds of handmade fabrics which have astonishing designs on them. Migration is common in Assam with people migrating from south East Asia who adopt their homes in the plains and tribal region just so to make their ends meet.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Major_festivals\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Major festivals<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bohag bihu or Rongali is the famous festival of Assam where people from all over the state gather to enjoy and celebrate their hearts out. The festival comes from a theory of vernal equinox when night and day are counted equal. It is celebrated at the start of April which is also the first month in the Assamese calendar.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Major_crops\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Major crops<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Assam shares a huge part in the economy of the country. Being an agricultural land, Assam produces a variety of crops which accounts for the survival and living in major parts of the state. It has a lot of greenery and forests all around and hence a rich flora and fauna. Major or the only popular crop is the tea plantations. Because of the soil, tea and its variants grow extremely well in an area of about 2.31 Lac hectares. Other crops are sugarcane, pineapple, guavas,mango, jute cotton, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Costumes_and_ornaments\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Costumes and ornaments<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The traditional costumes are mekhela-chador for women and for men its churia which are usually worn on special occasions and festivals. Though the traditional prevails, with the western culture finding its way in the state, people are changing from their traditional clothes to modern attire.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Tourist_attractions\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tourist attractions<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Assam is one such place which opens in closure from the three sides, the scenic view and undulating topography is something that tourists get attracted from all over the world. Assam also has many museums that are a storehouse of the state&#8217;s culture and ancient traditions. Many of the ruined sites which have been resurrected by the ASI give a fine view of the past glory of the state.Tea Gardens spread across the state also attract tourists.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Kinds_of_homes\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kinds of homes<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the weather of Assam is mostly rainy, hence the houses are made in a way to avoid floods and water logging. They also make ways to collect rainwater initiating rainwater harvesting.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Famous_personalities\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Famous personalities<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Assam has raised some magnificent personalities and continues to do so. Few names among them are Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, who was the fifth president of India, Gopinath Bordoloi, first CM of independent Assam, Bagh Hazarika and Chilara are the freedom fighters.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction Assam has an amazing aura with vast fields of tea and exquisite gardens of unique trees and herbal plants. 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