Karbi Anglong district

Karbi Anglong (in Asamés; কাৰ্বি আংলং) is a district of India in the state of Assam, mostly populated by the Karbi ethnic group. ISO Code: IN.AS.KA.

The administrative center is the city of Diphu.

Includes an area of 10 434 km².

TOPOGRAPHY

is a region with many valleys and mountains. It is at an altitude between 250 and 1000 m above sea level.

climate

temperature between 17.2º and 27º rains between 1000 and 2500 mm.

Population

According to Census 2011, it had a total population of 965 280 inhabitants, of which 471 978 were women and 493 482 men.

Recent History

When the Karbi ethnic group claimed autonomy in the Anglong district in Assam, the communists in the region formed an organization called Peoples Democratic Front (PDF, 1985) to guide the struggle for autonomy for revolutionary roads. His candidate for the elections of the state of Asam, Holiram Terang, obtained a seat, being the first time that a member of the Communist Party of India-Marxist-Leninista-Popular Guerra entered a Parliament. The demand for autonomy became greater in Anglong and in the neighboring district of North Cachar Hills and therefore the PDF was renamed Autonomous State Demand Comitte (ASDC) beating in the 1989 elections in the Anglong district. In 1991, ASDC obtained all the district seats in the legislative elections of ASAM and later a member of the organization, Jayanta Rongpi, obtained a nationwide seat, a seat that he kept in 1996 and 1998. In the 1996 elections in Assam The ASDC obtained the four seats from the Anglong district and one in North Cachar Hills, where the same year he won the victory in the district elections with the Congress Party.