Maibang

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situated along Lumding - Silchar Road & Railway - about 40 km from Lumding

Maibang << The name comes from a Dimasa word literally meaning "plenty of rice".
Maibang town derives its water from River Mahur

Dima Hasao District (of which Maibang is a part) was a part of the Dimasa Kachari Kingdom from the 16th Century till 1832 and Maibang was the medieval Capital - which got shifted to Dimacha at the behest of King Siuhungmung of the Tai-Ahom kingdom.

In 1832, the British Empire took over this territory as the last Kachari King died heirless and there was no one else to defend the kingdom. On the south of the present Maibang town you will still find the ruins of the Kachari Kingdom on the eastern bank of River Mahur.

Maibang and its environs have been under the reign of the Dimasa Kachari Kingdom and the British Empire for centuries, right until Indian Independence in 1947.

Maibang is a major producer of rice and is known as the 'granary of the district'. More and more people are getting to know Maibang as a good hill station for summer vacations.