DIBRUGARH  , a

town of British India, in the Lakhimpur district of eastern Bengal and Assam, of which it is the head-quarters, situated on the Dibru river about 4 M. above its confluence with the Brahmaputra . Pop . (Igor) 11,227 . It is the terminus of steamer navigation on the Brahmaputra, and also of a railway running to important coal-mines and petroleum wells, which connects with the Assam-Bengal system . Large quantities of coal and tea are exported . There are a military cantonment, the headquarters of the volunteer corps known as the Assam Valley Light Horse; a government high, school, a training school for masters; and an aided school for girls . In 1900 a medical school for the province was established, out of a bequest leftby Brigade-Surgeon J . Berry-White, which is maintained by the government, to train hospital assistants for the tea gardens . The Williamson artisan school is entirely supported by an endowment .