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Silchar ( Bengali: শিলচর Silcar [ ʃiltʃɔr ], Assamese: শিলচৰ Silcar [ xilsɔr ], also Shilchar ) is a city in the Indian state of Assam. It is located in the south of Assam by the river Barak, and is the administrative seat of the district of Cachar. With approximately 170,000 inhabitants ( census 2011) it is the second largest city after Guwahati Assam.

Silchar is situated in the Barak Valley, which is surrounded on three sides by mountains and is largely isolated from the rest of Assam. Historically and culturally, however, there are close connections to East Bengal, now Bangladesh. Thus, the majority language is not in Silchar Assamese, the official language of the state, but Bengali. In 1961 it came to the language issue to bloody clashes in Silchar, in which 11 people were shot dead by the police. As a result of the protests, the Bengal has today in the three districts of Barak Valley next to the Assamese official status.

Silchar is a major transportation hub for southern Assam and the neighboring states of Mizoram and Manipur. In the city of running in a north-south direction to the National Highway 54, which connects with the rest of Assam Coming crossed from Mizorams capital Aizawl the Barail Mountains and Silchar cross, and the east-west direction to Imphal, the capital of Manipur extending National Highway 53 railway connections are available to Agartala in Tripura as well as a meter gauge route through the mountains to Barail - Lumding. Furthermore, the city has its own airport with connections to Kolkata, Guwahati and Imphal.

In place Dargakona 20 kilometers from Silchar is the Assam University, which is considered one of the nation's 25 federal universities (Central Universities ) entertained directly by the Indian state.