Kapili

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This article has been extracted from THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.

Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts. Some units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.

Kapili

River of Assam, which rises on the northern slopes of the Jaintia. Hills, Eastern Bengal and Assam, and, after a course of 163 miles, falls into the Kalang at Jagi, near the western end of Now- gong District. It receives the Doiang, which carries off the whole of the drainage of the extreme north of Cachar District, and, in addi- tion to numerous other minor streams, the Jamuna, Barpani, and Umiam or Kiling. A branch channel connects it with the Kalang at Raha, 20 miles east of its main junction with that river. In the rainy season the Kapili is navigable by boats of 4 tons burden up to Pani- mur, the place at which it leaves the hills ; but progress beyond this spot is checked by a barrier of rocks, over which the river is pre- cipitated in a fine waterfall. During the dry season boats of this size cannot proceed farther than Kampur. In the hills the Kapili flows along a rocky channel ; in the plains its course is through low-lying land, and its banks are for the most part covered with dense jungle grass. Most of the hill trade, which consists of cotton, lac, and eri silk, comes down the Kapili to Chaparmukh, and is dispatched thence by rail or country boat to Gauhati. The Assam-Bengal Railway crosses the river on a brick bridge 500 yards in length, but this is largely in excess of the actual breadth of the channel at most seasons of the year. The principal places on its banks are Chaparmukh, Jamunamukh, Kharikhana, and Dharamtul. The floods of this river do considerable damage. Efforts have been made by the villagers to protect their lands, by constructing an embankment for about 7 miles along the southern bank from Deonarikoli to Magurgaon in the Sahari mauza.