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Itanagar
The capital of Arunachal Pradesh on the foothills of the Himalayas, 390 kilometres from Guwahati — chosen as the state capital of the newly-formed Arunachal Pradesh in 1972 when the Union Territory was created, and growing from a small Nyishi tribal village of 1,000 people to a city of 350,000. The surrounding hills preserve the 14-century Ita Fort (brick fortification of the Mayapur dynasty of the Chutiya kingdom), the 1991 Buddhist Temple complex (built by the Dalai Lama for the 500,000 Buddhists of Arunachal Pradesh), and the Jawaharlal Nehru State Museum of Arunachal culture. Itanagar hosts the Rajiv Gandhi University (1984, central university from 2007) and is the political centre of the 26 major and 100+ sub-tribal communities of the state.
- Function
- Religious institution & practice
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 27.084, 93.605
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- Site adjacencyNamsai Golden Pagoda
The Namsai Golden Pagoda at Kongmu Kham and Itanagar, the state capital of Arunachal Pradesh, are the Theravada and secular civic anchors of eastern Arunachal — Namsai in the Tai Khamti Shan-Burmese Buddhist country, Itanagar the modern capital developed from 1972 on the site of the 11th-century Mayapur fort of the Jiti chief. The two sit two hundred and forty kilometres apart on National Highway 15 (the East-West Industrial Corridor) and together frame the pan-Buddhist, pan-indigenous and administrative landscape of modern Arunachal.
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Sources
Wikipedia, “Itanagar”. Archaeological Survey of India and State Archaeology monument records, and the standard regional literature.
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