Dhansiri

The Dhansiri rises in the Naga Hills and flows north past Dimapur towards the Brahmaputra. Its upper course crosses hills and rapids before the river enters the alluvial plains of Assam. Dimapur, beside the river, was a capital of the Dimasa Kachari kingdom until its capture by the Ahoms in 1536. The Dhansiri thus connected a hill and plain landscape with the larger river system of the Brahmaputra valley.