Langai

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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.

Langai

River of Assam, which rises in the hills to the south of Sylhet District, and flows north to within a few miles of Karimganj town. Here it turns to the south-west and finally disappears in tlie Hakaluki haoi- (depression). During the rainy season it is connected with the Kusiyara branch of the Surma river, near Karimganj, by a channel called the Natiakhal. On entering Sylhet, the river flows through a ' reserved ' forest, part of which has recently been thrown open to cultivation, and then through low hilly country, planted out with tea, and from this point its banks are fringed with tea gardens and villages. There is little wheeled traffic in Sylhet, and the Langai is largely used as a trade route for forest produce, tea, rice, cotton, mustard, mats, and other country products. During the rainy season boats of 4 tons burden can proceed as far as Hathikira tea estate ; in the cold season traffic is carried on in light vessels. The most impor- tant places on the banks of the Langai are Patharkandi, Nilam Bazar, Latu, and Jaldhub. Its total length is 73 miles.