Kulsi

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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.

Kulsi

River of Assam, which rises in the Khasi Hills a little to the west of Shillong, and flows north and west for 120 miles to the Brahmaputra, which it joins near the western boundary of Kamrup District. The most important places on its banks are the Kulsi plantation and Chaygaon, a market in Kamrup, The upper part of its course lies in jungle, but in the central portion of Kamrup it passes numerous villages. It affords an outlet for the timber of the Kulsi plantation, and a certain amount of lac and cotton is brought down it from the hills. The trunk road crosses the Kulsi on two iron bridges at Kukurmara and Chaygaon,