Darrang district

Darrang district দৰং
District
An entrance to Manas National Park, Darrang
Darrang district's location in Assam
Country	India
State	Assam
Headquarters	Mangaldoi
Population (2011)
• Total	908,090
Time zone	IST (UTC+05:30)
ISO 3166 code	IN-AS
Website	http://darrang.gov.in/

Darrang (Pron: ˌdəˈræŋ or dæˈræŋ) (Assamese: দৰং) is an administrative district in the state of Assam in India. The district headquarters are located at Mangaldoi. The district occupies an area of 3481 km².

In the 16th century Darrang was subject to the Koch king of Kamarupa, Nara Narayan, and on the division of his dominions among his heirs passed to an independent line of rajas. Early in the 17th century the raja Bali Narayan invoked the aid of the Ahoms of Upper Assam against the Muslim invaders; after his defeat and death in 1637 the Ahoms dominated the whole district. About 1785 the Darrang rajas took advantage of the decay 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.

In 1983 Sonitpur district was formed from part of Darrang. This was repeated on 14 June 2004 with the creation of Udalguri district.

Darrang district occupies an area of 3,481 square kilometres (1,344 sq mi).

There are four Assam Legislative Assembly constituencies in this district: Kalaigaon, Sipajhar, Mangaldoi, and Dalgaon. Mangaldoi is designated for scheduled castes. All four are in the Mangaldoi Lok Sabha constituency.

According to the 2011 census Darrang district has a population of 908,090, roughly equal to the nation of Fiji or the US state of Delaware. This gives it a ranking of 463rd in India (out of a total of 640). The district has a population density of 491 inhabitants per square kilometre (1,270/sq mi) . Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 19.51%. Darrang has a sex ratio of 923 females for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate of 64.55%.