Dimapur: the Kachari brick city on the Dhansiri, to 2026

Описание: Watch Dimapur grow on the Dhansiri: charcoal dated to 270 CE, the walled capital of the Dimasa Kacharis the Ahoms called the brick city, its carved sandstone pillars, and the Ahom wars that ended in its sack in 1536.
Then three centuries of forest, the Burmese invasions and the Treaty of Yandabo, a police post in 1873, the railway to Manipur Road in 1903, and the people who came to settle: Hazi Maligul Khan and his Jama Masjid of 1906, Rongmei veterans of the First World War, Jain families fleeing Kohima in 1944, Namgalong, Thahekhü, the Kalibari and the Ao Baptist Church. Then Nagaland in 1963, Chümoukedima and Niuland in 2021, and today's town drawn from the real map. Walls and tanks are placed from Godwin-Austen's 1874 plan.

Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:17 Land, 3000 BCE to 270 CE
0:33 First town, 270 CE to 1250
0:57 Kacharis, 1250 to 1490
1:38 War, 1490 to 1536
2:18 Forest, 1536 to 1866
3:16 Naga Hills, 1866 to 1903
4:12 Railway, 1903 to 1942
5:30 1944, 1942 to 1947
6:17 Newcomers, 1947 to 1957
7:08 Statehood, 1957 to 1971
7:53 Hub, 1971 to 2004
8:17 District, 2004 to 2021
8:50 Today, 2021 to 2026
9:19 Rewind and replay
9:40 What still stands
10:22 Sources

Sources
Wikipedia: Dimapur · Dimapur district · Chümoukedima district · Niuland district · Dhansiri River · Dimasa Kingdom (Rhodes 1986) · Naga Hills District · Nagaland · Kohima · Dimapur railway station · Assam Bengal Railway · Battle of Kohima · Battle of Imphal (Allen 2000) · Dimapur Airport · 2004 Dimapur bombings · Nagamese creole · Shokhüvi railway station · Assam Province · Eastern Bengal and Assam · Burmese invasions of Assam · Treaty of Yandabo · Phulchand Sethi (Morung Express 2021) · Dimapur Jain Temple · Dimapur Kalibari (Hindustan Times 2006) · Nagaland (Yadav 1986; Sharma 2006)
Eastern Mirror: Jama Masjid (9 Aug 2013), Durga Puja (16 Oct 2018) · Morung Express: Hazi Khan (19 Feb 2012), Thahekhü (15 Mar 2016), Namgalong (31 Jan 2023) · Dimapur Ao Baptist Arogo, dabaarogo.org
Gait, A History of Assam (1906) · Allen, Naga Hills gazetteer (1905) · Godwin-Austen, 'On the Ruins at Dimapur', Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 43 (1874)
Nienu, 'Excavations at Dimapur, Nagaland and the Antiquity of the Kachari Civilization', Journal of History, Art and Archaeology 4(1) (2024) · Bathari (2014), cited in Wikipedia 'Dimapur', for the meaning of the name · Bangladesh Air Force website
Streets, buildings, rivers, woods, railways and place names © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0
Hills: AWS Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, from SRTM and other public sources) · district and state boundaries © OpenStreetMap contributors; countries from Natural Earth (public domain)
Airfield: runway 12/30, 2,290 m (Wikipedia, 'Dimapur Airport'), placed on the airport's reference point
Walls and tanks: Godwin-Austen's plan (1874). Villages: Survey of India quarter-inch sheet 83 G (surveyed 1921-23) and AMS 1:250,000 sheet NG 46-11 (1955), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Images (Wikimedia Commons)
H. H. Godwin-Austen, Public domain: https://archive.org/details/journalof...
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Shyamal, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
H. H. Godwin-Austen, Public domain: https://archive.org/details/journalof...
H. H. Godwin-Austen, Public domain: https://archive.org/details/journalof...
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); country outlines from Natural Earth (public domain).
Buildings, streets and house styles are drawn to show how the town grew; they are not a survey.
Music made for this video.

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