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Darrang district () is an administrative district in the state of Assam in India. The district headquarters are located at Mangaldoi. The district occupies an area of 1585 km2.
During the reign of Dharmanarayan 3000 Chutia people families were established in Darrang.
In the 16th century, Darrang was subject to the Kamata Kingdom king Nara Narayan, and on the division of his dominion among his heirs, Darrang became a part of Koch Hajo. Early in the 17th century the Raja Bali Narayan invoked the aid of the Ahom kingdom of Upper Assam against the Mughal Empire invaders; after his defeat and death in 1637 the Ahoms dominated the whole district. About 1785 the Darrang rajas took advantage of the decline of the Ahom kingdom to try and re-establish their independence, but they were defeated by a British expedition in 1792, and in 1826 Darrang, with the rest of Assam, passed under British control.
By early 17th century, the Kingdom of Bhutan took control of the Darrang Dooars as far as Gohain Kamal Ali road."Taking advantage of the, the Bhutias pushed their southern boundary towards the plains and occupied the land upto the Gohain Kamal Ali." "During the period of political uncertainty caused by the Ahom-Mughal conflict in the middle of seventeenth century, the Bhutias had taken possession of the whole of the fertile plain south of their hills as far as the Gohain Kamal Ali." The Bhutan control over these regions were through local authorities, who were appointed by Bhutanese provincial governors called Penlops. By 1865, with the the British East India company took control of the Duars and removed Bhutanese influence from the area.
In 1785 it was Darrang was surveyed by one Ahom officer named Dhani Ram Gohain.
On 28 January 1894, there was a peasant's uprising against the increased land revenue by the British Raj in Patharighat, a village in Darrang district. In the British response that followed, 140 peasants belonging to both Hindu and Muslim communities died from bullet wounds and another 150 were injured.
In 1984 Sonitpur district was formed from part of Darrang. This was repeated on 14 June 2004 with the creation of Udalguri district.
| +Population of circles by religion !Circle !Muslims !Hindus !Others | |||
| Khoirabari (Pt) | 4.74% | 95.19% | 0.07% |
| Patharighat (Pt) | 35.18% | 64.69% | 0.13% |
| Sipajhar | 46.23% | 53.56% | 0.21% |
| Mangaldoi (Pt) | 42.36% | 57.22% | 0.42% |
| Kalaigaon (Pt) | 10.25% | 89.60% | 0.15% |
| Dalgaon (Pt) | 88.27% | 11.20% | 0.53% |
In Darrang district, as per the 2011 census record, Islam is the most followed religion with 597,392 adherents i.e. (64.34%), while Hinduism is followed by 327,322 i.e. 35.25% of the district population. Dalgaon in particular contained nearly half the population of the entire district. Way back in 1971, Hindus were slight majority in undivided Darrang district (which includes present Sonitpur and Udalguri districts) forming 70.3% of the population, while Muslims were 23.9% at that time.International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications https://www.ijsrp.org › ijsrp-...PDF The Change of Religion and Language Composition in the State of Assam ...
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