Duliajan
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Duliajan দুলীয়াজান |
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| Nickname(s): "Oil Town" | |
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| Coordinates: 27°22′00″N 95°19′00″E / 27.3667°N 95.3167°ECoordinates: 27°22′00″N 95°19′00″E / 27.3667°N 95.3167°E | |
| Country |
 India
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| State | Assam |
| District | Dibrugarh |
| Elevation | 121 m (397 ft) |
| Population (2001) | |
| • Total | 23,763 |
| • Rank | 16th In Assam |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Assamese, English |
| Time zone | IST (UTC+5:30) |
| PIN | 786602 |
| Vehicle registration | AS-06 |
Duliajan is an industrial town located in Dibrugarh District in the upper north-east corner of India. The town is about 45 km east of Dibrugarh City. It is particularly known for its oil related industry, Oil India Limited, one of the country's largest oil and gas companies is headquartered in Duliajan and in Duliajan there was also other central government owned companies like B.C.P.L company of gas cracker & polymer, N.E.P.C.O is another company which produces electricity, B.F.C.L. is another company of gas production and modification, and the Shivani company which is India's largest private company for drilling and Assam Gas Company Limited, which carries out business related to natural gas in India, owned by the Government of Assam.
Duliajan derived its name from "Dulia" meaning "palanquin-bearers" of the Ahom kings and "Jan" meaning "a river stream". The Ahom kings, also known as Swargadeos, were very fond of hunting in the Upper Dihing forests. The Swargadeos would come by boats from their capital of Gargaon and Rangpur (in Sivasagar district) down the Dikhow river to the mighty Brahmaputra, then row uptream, enter the Dihing river and halt at the mouth of the stream near Tipling-Ghat in present-day Duliajan. The stream was a guiding pathway for the palanquin bearers of the Swargadeos. Thus, when a new oil town was constructed in this area, to honour the palanquin bearers, it became a natural choice for the historical name of Duliajan and it was very small town actually on other hand you can say it a village because earlier it was known as a village but duliajan was so developed people and the government of India have bound to refer Duliajan as a town. The Indian government has given many awards to Oil India Limited for doing such a wonderful world-class infrastructure development in such a small village-based town and in India there was no other small village like Duliajan was so developed till today the present 21st century in India. It was well known for its excellence not just in India but also abroad.
As per another legend, Dulia khel (a sub-community of Ahom) first settled on the bank of a small rivulet Duriajan which is still in the village of Kachari Pathar, near Duliajan. This Duriajan became Duliajan after it was used by the Dulia community and gradually people started calling the rivulet Duliajan. From this rivulet the whole area of this locality latter came to be called Duliajan. After the Ahom king Suhanfa was killed in a conspiracy, according to prevalent custom those days, the ministers of Suhanfa’s cabinet selected his son Supinfa as his successor. Immediately after ascending the throne, Supinfa investigated the killing of his father and found one of his minister Laturban and his sons as the main conspirators. Swargadeo Supimfa then ordered that Laturban and his sons be beheaded for the heinous crime. Accordingly, on the banks of a small river, far away from the Ahom capital, the order was carried out. As the place was far from the capital and near to a river bank, the place came to be known as ‘Duroijan’ where duroi means far long and Jan means rivulet in Assamese language. It is said from ‘Duraijan’ the word Duliajan came in focus.
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