HISTORY
"HISTORY speaks when it comes to sivasagar. This place is a tribute to the glorious past of this place. The majestic days to the history are still fresh in every Sivsagarian's mind."
THE STORY OF SIVASAGAR(SIBSAGAR):
Sivsagar, the historic monuments place formaly known as Rangpur. It was the capital of the Ahom Kingdom from 1699 to 1788. The Ahoms ruled Assam for six Centuries, until their kingdom fell to Burmese in 1819 and their rulling class was all but wiped out. In ancient times when Ahom kings used to dig any tank or pond, they used to name it with suffix of 'sagar'(sea). Though the sizes of these tank were merely of small lakes, these meant more than a sea not only for the kings but also for the people. Such a sagar is Sivasagar or Sibsagar. The specialty of this sagar is that a town, a sub- division and a district is named after this. Interestingly during the Ahom king's days, there was no place called Sivasagar. Only the tank dug by Sivasingha was called Sivasagar. It was known as 'Rangpur' only those days. Its the British who started using the name sivsagar to represent this place.
Collected by:
Gayatri Devi Baruwati
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