Dura

Dura lies beneath the wooded Tura range in the Garo Hills, a country of steep ridges and rain-fed streams. Garo communities cultivated hill clearings by jhum, while those nearer the plains grew wet rice. Descent and inheritance followed the maternal line. Along the margins of the hills, Garo groups dealt with the great estates of Bengal: early accounts record intermittent conflict with their zamindars as well as a shared frontier between uplands and plains.