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Pasighat
Pasighat in East Siang district on the right bank of the Siang (the Tibetan Yarlung Tsangpo as it emerges onto the plains) was founded by the Assam Rifles in 1911 as the forward base for the Abor Expedition — the punitive campaign the British mounted after the murder of Noel Williamson, the political officer who had tried to force a route up the Siang gorges to Tibet. It is the oldest town in Arunachal Pradesh; the Williamson Sangma museum, the Rameshwaram Shivalaya and the Daying Ering Memorial Wildlife Sanctuary across the river at Mebo mark its colonial, Hindu and Adi layers. Pasighat is the headquarters of the Adi, the largest tribe of Arunachal.
- Function
- Authority & administration
- Patron dynasty
- Colonial India
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 28.067, 95.333
Connections (3)
- Site adjacencyMalinithan
Malinithan at the foot of the Siang hills in Lower Siang district and Pasighat on the right bank of the Siang in East Siang district are the two main cultural anchors of the Adi country, forty kilometres apart on either side of the river gorge where the Yarlung Tsangpo emerges onto the plains as the Siang. Malinithan is the ruined medieval temple complex of the Chutiya and Sutiya kingdoms; Pasighat is the oldest town in Arunachal, founded by the Assam Rifles in 1911 as the forward base for the Abor Expedition and the headquarters of the Adi today.
- Site adjacencyTezpur
Pasighat on the right bank of the Siang and Tezpur on the north bank of the Brahmaputra are the two historic colonial frontier posts of the North-East Frontier Tract — Tezpur the Assam Rifles headquarters from which the 1911 Abor Expedition and the 1962 war command and control were run, Pasighat the forward base of the same expedition that was founded on 1 October 1911 after the murder of Noel Williamson. The two are a hundred and forty kilometres apart across the Siang-Brahmaputra confluence and together frame the colonial geography of the Siang frontier.
- Site adjacencyRoing & Dibang Valley
Roing in the Dibang valley and Pasighat on the Siang are the two headquarters of the Adi-Mishmi cultural zone of eastern Arunachal — Pasighat for the Adi and Padam-Minyong subgroups, Roing for the Idu Mishmi. The two are a hundred and twenty kilometres apart across the Lower Dibang-East Siang border, connected by the trans-Arunachal highway and the Dhola-Sadiya bridge over the Brahmaputra at Sadiya downstream. The medieval Bhismaknagar fortress near Roing and the Daying Ering sanctuary near Pasighat together carry the pre-colonial Chutiya and Ahom frontier of the region.
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