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Beltola has a long history. It was, until about half a century ago, the hub of a small kingdom, the kingdom of
Beltola. Close to the site of the famous "Beltola-haat", where small local vendors sell their agricultural produce and other goods of small-scale manufacturing twice a week, lived the royal
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Beltola are unclear. Raphael Kujurd, vice-president of the All Adivasi Students' Association of Assam, has stated that he believes the Adivasi
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Dimorua. The places named as Rajgarh and Hatigarh in present-day Guwahati city, were the borders between Ahom ruled Guwahati city and the kingdom of Beltola. After the fall of Ahom kingdom and the British occupation of Assam, Beltola lost its status as a kingdom and converted into a Mouza or
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