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Hojai district is a district in Assam, India. It was formed on 15 August 2015. "Assam gets new district of Hojai" , The Northeast Today The headquarters of the district is situated at Sankardev Nagar, which is about 8 km away from Hojai town. Hojai District was formed from three tehsils of Nagaon District, namely Hojai, Doboka and Lanka. Hojai was a part of the undivided Nowgong district (now Nagaon) of then Assam Province.
On 31 December 2022, the district was temporarily remerged into Nagaon district. On 25 August 2023, the Assam cabinet reinstated Hojai's district status.
Medieval historical sources mention that during the reign of Kashyap (1365-1400) of the Barahi Pala dynasty there began a new era of Kachari supremacy in the Kapili-Jamuna valley. Birochana, a minister of Kachari origin in the service of king Bhoumapala of Behali area in the north bank of Brahmaputra, had to flee his kingdom after a conflict with the king. He came to the south bank of Brahmaputra and established a new kingdom on the banks of the Kalong river which was Brahmapur or the present day Batampur. He then assumed the name ‘Bicharpatipha’. Soon Kachari reign spread to the entire Kapili-Jamuna valley and the name of the kingdom was known as Kacharipar.
Due to Ahoms kingdom's vigorous territorial expansion, the Kachari kings came into conflict with them. During the rule of Kachari king Tamradhwaja Narayan, the Kachari ruled areas went to the Ahoms under Swargadeo Supatphaa.
In the modern day, Hojai saw a large influx of Sylheti Hindu refugees after Sylhet went to Pakistan. In 1993, the Hojai riots broke out between Hindus and Muslims over tensions related to the Babri Masjid demolition.
After the Sylhet referendum which led to separation of Sylhet Division from then Assam Province, a large number of Bengali Hindus have migrated to the area from the then East Pakistan and are mostly settled in the towns of Lumding, Lanka and Hojai.
| + Tehsil wise religious data in Hojai district | |||||
| Hojai | 228,530 | 92,590 | 135,377 | 40.52% | 59.24% |
| Dabaka | 303,767 | 265,366 | 37,872 | 87.35% | 12.47% |
| Lanka | 398,921 | 141,609 | 250,816 | 35.50% | 62.87% |
| Total (2011) | 931,218 | 499,565 | 424,065 | 53.65% | 45.53% |
At the time of the 2011 census, 52.67% of the population spoke Bengali language, 33.72% Assamese, 4.31% Hindi, 1.91% Meitei language, 1.31% Dimasa language and 1.21% Bhojpuri as their first language.
On 6 March 2021, Hon'ble Mr. Justice Suman Shyam, Judge Guahati High Court, inaugurated the Newly created Courts of District & Sessions Judge and Chief Judicial Magistrate at Hojai, Sankardev Nagar. Sri Aditya Hazarika became the first District & Sessions Judge and Sri Shakti Sharma became the first Chief Judicial Magistrate of Hojai District.
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