KAMRUP, a British district in the central portion of Assam. It lies between lat. 25° 50' and 26° 53' N., and between long. 40' and 92° 2' E. Its great river is the Brahmaputra, which is navigable by steamers all the year through. Its aboriginal tribes are the Ahom, Cachari, Chandal, Dom, Mikir, Rabha, Saranya. The Cachari, Rabha, Saranya, and Mikir are all wild tribes of Indo-Chinese origin, whose common affinities it would be difficult to trace ; they unite in repudiating the caste regulations and the cere monial purity of living enjoined by Hinduism. In 1872, the Chandals numbered 10,222 ; the Doms, 9566; the Ahoms, who constituted the dominant race as late as the beginning of the 19th• century, at the 1881 census numbered 179,314.
On the northern frontier of Kamrup there are five Doars, and on the north of Durrung, two. Their names are—Ghurkolah, Baksha or Banska, Chappaguri, Chapakhamar, Bijni, Buri Guma, Knifing.
Under the Assam Government, the Kamrup Doars bad entirely fallen under the Bhutan authorities, and the Bhutan supremacy continued after the acquisition of Assam by the British Government. But the Durrung Doars were held
alternately four months by the British Govern ment and eight months by the Buteahs each year. In 1841, in consequence of aggressions, the whole of these Doars were annexed to British territory, and Rs. 10,000 a year paid as compen sation to the chiefs of Kamrup, similarly with the Buteahs of Durrung, and Rs. 5000 a year paid for the Koreapara Doar.
To the east of the Jowang country are the independent clans of the Ruprye and Shirgaih Buteahs, whose custom it was to enter the Char Doar and Now Doar, which have been held by the British Government since the occupation of Assam, and to levy black-mail. But the black:. mail was•eventually commuted to an annual pay ment of money.