Doom-Dooma Tourism, Assam

It is said that the name of the town comes from the sound of the footfalls of the elephants which sounds like dumdum. The region was once covered with forests. The forests were full of elephants. So the area is known after elephants.

During the rule of the Ahom Doom Dooma was a part of the Ahom kingdom. Later British occupied the place. During British rule Doom Dooma was made into a developed town. The British discovered the immense potential of the town as tea producer. Hence Doom Dooma was developed as a tea town.

Doom Dooma has its name written in the pages of Mahabharata as, the Doom Dooma river which flows through the heart of the city is mentioned as the drain connected to the bathroom of the mighty Bhima, of the Pancha Pandavas when he was in Manipur with his wife Hirimba. The place had been ruled by many Kings of different dynasties across Assam, and the most significant ones were the Ahom Dynasty, the Kachari Dynasty and the Moran Dynasty before the impact of the British on Assam. But Doom Dooma was an unseen and underdeveloped region for many decades, mostly covered with forests until the British had noticed the region as an excellent place for the cultivation of tea and cleared the forests and set up tea farms which gave the place a new identity and made it known among people as the 'Tea City'.

Now, Doom Dooma, has the largest Tea Gardens in Asia. Hence it is right to say that Doom Dooma generates a sizable amount of currency for the Indian government from its tea exports. The town is mainly surrounded by tea gardens and the scenic beauty of the place and surroundings easily captivates the mind of a stranger. It is an old town which got its township during Second World War and currently it is under the Tinsukia Circle.