country_of_origin freedom at the edge
The Ahom kingdom ( 1228  1826 , also called " Kingdom of Assam ") was a kingdom in the Brahmaputra Valley in Assam , ___MASK85___ that maintained its sovereignty for nearly 600 years and successfully resisted Mughal expansion in Northeast ___MASK85___ . Established by Sukaphaa , a Tai prince from Mong Mao , it began as a mong in the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra based on wet rice agriculture . It expanded suddenly under Suhungmung in the 16th century and became multi - ethnic in character , casting a profound effect on the political and social life in the entire Brahmaputra valley . The kingdom became weaker with the rise of the Moamoria rebellion , and subsequently fell to repeated Burmese invasions of Assam . With the defeat of the Burmese after the First Anglo - Burmese War and the Treaty of Yandabo in 1826 , control of the kingdom passed into East ___MASK85___ Company hands . Nagaland is a state in Northeast ___MASK85___ . It borders the state of Assam to the west , Arunachal Pradesh and part of Assam to the north , Burma to the east , and Manipur to the south . The state capital is Kohima , and the largest city is Dimapur . It has an area of with a population of 1 , 980 , 602 per the 2011 Census of ___MASK85___ , making it one of the smallest states of ___MASK85___ . ___MASK20___ ( , " The country of Bengal "), officially the People ' s Republic of ___MASK20___ (                  " Gônôprôjatôntri ___MASK20___ "), is a country in South Asia . It shares land borders with ___MASK85___ and Myanmar ( Burma ). Nepal , Bhutan and China are located near ___MASK20___ but do not share a border with it . The country ' s maritime territory in the Bay of Bengal is roughly equal to the size of its land area . ___MASK20___ is the world ' s eighth most populous country . Dhaka is its capital and largest city , followed by Chittagong which has the country ' s largest port . Freedom at the Edge is an Assamese language short film by Aneisha Sharma based on a real - life story . Arunachal Pradesh is one of the twenty - nine states of ___MASK85___ . Located in northeast ___MASK85___ , it holds the most north - eastern position among the states in the north - east region of ___MASK85___ . Arunachal Pradesh borders the states of Assam and Nagaland to the south , and shares international borders with Bhutan in the west , Myanmar in the east and China in the north . Itanagar is the capital of the state . Arunachal Pradesh has territorial disputes with both the PRC and ROC due to its cultural , ethnic and geographic proximity to Tibet . " Genealogically , Assamese belongs to the group of Eastern Indo - Aryan languages " Assamese , Asamiya or Ôxômiya ( Assamese : , "") is an Eastern Indo - Aryan language spoken mainly in the state of Assam , where it is an official language . The easternmost of the Indo - Aryan languages , it is spoken by over 13 million native speakers , and serves as a " lingua franca " in the region . It is also spoken in parts of Arunachal Pradesh and other northeast Indian states . Nagamese , an Assamese - based Creole language is widely used in Nagaland and parts of Assam . Nefamese is an Assamese - based pidgin used in Arunachal Pradesh . Small pockets of Assamese speakers can be found in ___MASK20___ . In the past , it was the court language of the Ahom kingdom from the 17th century . Assam (; " Ôxôm " ; " Asam "; " Âshám " ) is a state in northeastern ___MASK85___ . Located south of the eastern Himalayas , Assam comprises the Brahmaputra Valley and the Barak Valley along with the Karbi Anglong and Dima Hasao districts with an area of . Assam , along with Arunachal Pradesh , Nagaland , Manipur , Mizoram , Tripura , and Meghalaya , is one of the " Seven Sister States ". Geographically , Assam and these states are connected to the rest of ___MASK85___ via a strip of land in West Bengal called the Siliguri Corridor or " Chicken ' s Neck ". Assam shares an international border with Bhutan and Bangladesh ; and its culture , people and climate are similar to those of South - East Asia  comprising the elements in ___MASK85___  s Look East policy . The Indo - Aryan or Indic languages are the dominant language family of the ___MASK86___ , spoken largely by Indo - Aryan people . They constitute a branch of the Indo - Iranian languages , itself a branch of the Indo - European language family . Indo - Aryan speakers form about one half of all Indo - European speakers ( about 1 . 5 of 3 billion ), and more than half of all Indo - European languages recognized by " Ethnologue ". While the languages are primarily spoken in South Asia , pockets of Indo - Aryan languages are found to be spoken in Europe and the Middle East .