Tezpur

Tezpur stands on the northern bank of the Brahmaputra, in a landscape of hills and old temple remains. It is associated with Haruppesvara, a capital of early Kamarupa in the Brahmaputra valley. A rock inscription of King Harjaravarman near the river dates from the ninth century, while carved stone remains on Bamuni Hill testify to a flourishing tradition of temple art.

West of the town at Da Parbatia stands a finely carved doorway from an early temple. Its sculpted bands and figures preserve a style much older than the kingdoms that later ruled the valley. The surviving fragments around Tezpur show how religious buildings and royal centres once occupied the riverbank and its hills, even as political power moved elsewhere in Assam.