The state ofAssam in India has five regional divisions, each comprising a number of districts. The person responsible for the administration of a division is designated as aDivisional Commissioner.[citation needed]
Location of the oldest urban centres recognised as a municipality region of Assam before 1947.[1][2]
In 1874, Assam was constituted as aChief Commissioner's province with the seat of the government inShillong, the erstwhile capital of Assam, which is now inMeghalaya. To better administer the six districts of Goalpara, Kamrup, Sonitpur, Nagaon (formerly, Nowgong), Sivasagar (formerly, Sibsagar) and Lakhimpur, (the districts in the Brahmaputra valley, also calledAssam Valley), the Judge of Assam Valley was given the additional charge of a commissioner in 1880.[3] In 1905, the offices of the Judge and the Commissioner were segregated in the Assam Valley;[4] in addition to adding a separate Commissioner's office for the administration of the Hill Districts and Surma Valley.[5]
^"Urbanisation and Growth of Small Towns in Assam, India"(PDF).Rinku Manta, Research Scholar, Deptt. of Geography - Gauhati University and Dr. Jnanshree Borah, Associate Professor, Deptt. of Geography: Arya Vidyapeeth and Cotton College - Gauhati University. 2005. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 2020-10-26. Retrieved2017-04-07.
^"In 1879, Sir Bayley, therefore, proposed to the Government of India that the Judge of Assam Valley to be the ex-officio Commissioner of Assam Valley. High Court objected to the proposal. But Government of India approved the scheme and the Chief Commissioner invested the Judge of Assam with the powers of a Commissioner of a Division." (Bose 1985, p. 32)
^"Urbanisation and Growth of Small Towns in Assam, India"(PDF).Rinku Manta, Research Scholar, Deptt. of Geography - Gauhati University and Dr. Jnanshree Borah, Associate Professor, Deptt. of Geography: Arya Vidyapeeth and Cotton College - Gauhati University. 2005. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 2020-10-26. Retrieved2017-04-07.
