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'''Hojai District''' is a district in [[Assam]], [[India]]. It was formed on 15 August 2015.<ref>[http://thenortheasttoday.com/assam-gets-new-district-of-hojai/ "Assam gets new district of Hojai"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160701104129/http://thenortheasttoday.com/assam-gets-new-district-of-hojai/ |date=1 July 2016 }}, ''[[The Northeast Today]]''</ref> The headquarters of the District is situated at [[Sankardev Nagar]], which is about 8&nbsp;km away from [[Hojai]] town. Hojai District was formed from three tehsils of [[Nagaon District]], namely [[Hojai]], [[Doboka]] and [[Lanka, Assam|Lanka]]. Hojai was a part of undivided Nowgong district (now Nagaon) of then [[Assam Province]].

'''Hojai''' is a surname commonly used by the [[Dimasa people|Dimasa community]].

The geographical area presently under Hojai district and its surrounding area as in the history of the ancient [[Kamarupa]], was known as [[Davaka|Davaka kingdom]] or [[Kopili River|Kapili]] Valley kingdom. In different sources this kingdom is mentioned as ‘Dabak’, ‘Kapili’ and ‘Tribeg’.  This kingdom enjoyed independent status up to the 6th century CE.<ref>https://hojai.assam.gov.in/frontimpotentdata/history-of-hojai-0</ref>

Medieval historical sources mention that during the reign of Kashyap (1365-1400) of the Barahi Pala dynasty there began a new era of Kachari supremacy in the Kapili-Jamuna valley.  Birochana, a minister of [[Bodo-Kachari people|Kachari]] origin in the service of king Bhoumapala of Behali area in the north bank of Brahmaputra had to flee his kingdom after a conflict with the king and came to the south bank of Brahmaputra and established a new kingdom on the banks of the Kalong river which was Brahmapur or the present day Batampur and he assumed the name ‘Bicharpatipha’. Soon Kachari reign spread to the entire Kapili-[[Jamuna River (Bangladesh)|Jamuna]] valley and the name of the kingdom was known as Kacharipar.

Due to Ahoms kingdom's vigorous territorial expansion, the Kachari kings came in to conflict with them. During the rule of Kachari king Tamradhwaja Narayan the Kachari ruled areas went to the Ahoms under Swargadeo Gadadhar Singha.

The word ‘Hojai’ is of [[Dimasa language|Dimasa]] origin. The priestly class of the Dimasas is known as {{Transl|dis|Hoja}}i or {{Transl|dis|Hojaisa}} and the place they inhabited came to be known as Hojai. Even now Hojai area has a sizeable population of Dimasas and some of them have the surname ‘Hojai’.

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{{bar percent|[[Muslims]]|#008000|53.65}}

{{bar percent|[[Hindus]]|darkorange|45.53}}

{{bar percent|Other or not stated|black|0.82}}

According to the Indian Census of 2011, the three tehsils in the newly formed Hojai District had a population of 931,218 in 2011. Among those 499,565 are Muslim and 424,065 are Hindu, constitutuing 53.65% and 45.53% of district population respectively.<ref name="districtcensus">{{cite web|year=2011|title=District Census - Nagaon|url=https://censusindia.gov.in/2011census/dchb/DCHB_A/18/1806_PART_A_DCHB_NAGAON.pdf|url-status=live|access-date=2021-07-17|publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, India}}</ref>

After [[Sylhet referendum]] which led to separation of [[Sylhet division]] from then [[Assam Province]], a large number of [[Bengali Hindus]] have migrated to the area from the then [[East Pakistan]] and are mostly settled in the towns such as [[Lumding]], [[Lanka (town)|Lanka]] and [[Hojai]].

|label1 = [[Bengali language|Bengali]] |value1 = 52.67 |color1 = salmon

|label2 = [[Assamese language|Assamese]] |value2 = 33.72 |color2 = gold

|label4 = [[Meitei language|Meitei]] |value4 = 1.91 |color4 = green

|label5 = [[Boro language (India)|Boro]] |value5 = 1.31 |color5 = purple

At the time of the 2011 census, 52.67% of the population spoke [[Bengali language|Bengali]], 33.72% [[Assamese language|Assamese]], 4.31% [[Hindi]], 1.91% [[Meitei language|Meitei]], 1.31% [[Boro language (India)|Boro]] and 1.21% [[Bhojpuri language|Bhojpuri]] as their first language.<ref>https://indianexpress.com/article/north-east-india/assam/assam-nrc-national-register-of-citizens-dhubri-hojai-5934188/</ref>

Hojai district has three assembly constituencies. They are [[Jamunamukh (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Jamunamukh]], [[Hojai (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Hojai]] and [[Lumding (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Lumding]]. Hojai district is also part of [[Nowgong (Lok Sabha constituency)|Nowgong]] constituency.

Judicial Court at Hojai was established on 20th October, 1982 and functioning as Court of Judicial Magistrate First Class. The Courts of Additional District and Sessions Judge(Fast Track Court),Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Munsiff cum JMFC Courts were later added under District Judiciary,Nagaon.