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{{Infobox settlement <!-- See [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian cities]] for details -->
| name = Silchar
| other_name = <!-- Please do not add any Indic script in this infobox, per WP:INDICSCRIPT policy. -->
| settlement_type = City
| image_skyline = {{Photomontage
| photo1a = Silchar Nazirpatty.jpg
| photo2a = New Silchar Railway Station 2016.jpg
| photo2b = Silchar Airport.JPG
| photo3a = Goaldighi Mall, Silchar - Shopping Complex.jpg
| photo3b = NIT Silchar Guest House.jpg
| color_border = black
| color = black
| size = 280
}}
| image_caption = ''Clockwise from top:'' Nazirpatty, Silchar city; [[Silchar Airport]], [[National Institute of Technology, Silchar|NIT Silchar]], Goldighi Mall, [[Silchar railway station]]
| nickname = The Island of Peace & The City of Love
| pushpin_map = India Assam#India
| pushpin_label_position = left
| pushpin_map_alt =
| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Assam
| coordinates = {{coord|24.82|N|92.8|E|display=it}}
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = {{flag|India}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[States and territories of India|State]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of India|District]]
| subdivision_type3 = [[List of regions of India|Region]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Assam]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Cachar]]
| subdivision_name3 = [[Barak Valley]]
| subdivision_type4 = No. Of Wards
| subdivision_name4 = 30
| established_title = Established
| established_date = 1838
| founder =
| government_type = Municipality
| governing_body = Silchar Municipal Board
| leader_title1 = Mayor
| leader_name1 = Niharendra Narayan Tagore, [[BJP]]
| leader_title2 = MLA
| leader_name2 = [[Dipayan Chakraborty]], [[BJP]]
| leader_title3 = MP
| leader_name3 = [[Rajdeep Roy|Dr Rajdeep Roy]], [[BJP]]
| unit_pref = Metric
| area_footnotes =
| area_total_km2 = 26.88
| elevation_footnotes =
| elevation_m = 22
| population_total = 172,830
| population_as_of = 2011
| population_footnotes =
| population_density_km2 = 8,524
| population_demonym = Silcharian
| timezone1 = [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
| utc_offset1 = +5:30
| postal_code_type = [[Postal Index Number|PIN]]
| postal_code = 788001-788032 & 788118
| area_code = +91 (0) 3842
| area_code_type = Telephone code
| registration_plate = AS-11
| website = {{URL|www.cachar.nic.in}}
| footnotes =
| leader_title4 = Deputy Commissioner
| leader_name4 = Rohan Kumar Jha, [[Indian Administrative Service|IAS]]
| blank1_name_sec1 = [[Human sex ratio|Sex Ratio]]
| blank1_info_sec1 = 943 [[Female|♀️]]/ 1000 [[Male|♂️]]
| blank2_name_sec1 = [[Köppen climate classification|Climate]]
| blank2_info_sec1 = [[Humid subtropical climate|Cwa]]
| blank3_name_sec1 = {{nowrap|[[Official Language]]}}
| blank3_info_sec1 = [[Bengali language|Bengali]]
| blank2_name_sec2 = [[Literacy in India|Literacy Rate]]
| blank2_info_sec2 = 90.26%{{citation needed|date=June 2021}}
| blank3_name_sec2 = [[Lok Sabha]] Constituency
| blank3_info_sec2 = [[Silchar (Lok Sabha constituency)|Silchar]]
| blank4_name_sec2 = [[Vidhan Sabha]] Constituency
| blank4_info_sec2 = [[Silchar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Silchar]]
}}
'''Silchar''' is a city and the headquarters of the [[Cachar district]] of the state of [[Assam]], [[India]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Home |url=https://cachar.gov.in/ |access-date=28 March 2023 |website=cachar.gov.in |publisher=Government Of Assam, India}}</ref> It is second largest city of [[North East India|North Eastern Region]] after [[Guwahati]] in terms of area, population and [[GDP]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sentinelassam.com/cities/silchar/silchar-the-second-largest-city-of-assam-know-all-about-the-city-559651|title=Silchar, the Second Largest City of Assam: Know All About the City - Sentinelassam|first=Sentinel Digital|last=Desk|date=20 October 2021|website=www.sentinelassam.com}}</ref> It is also administrative capital of [[Barak Valley division]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://hbvdassam.gov.in/ |title=Government of Assam - Barak Valley Division |website=hbvdassam.gov.in |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230114110920/http://hbvdassam.gov.in/ |archive-date=14 January 2023 |access-date=25 June 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Silchar |url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Silchar |access-date=28 March 2023 |website=www.britannica.com}}</ref> It is located {{convert|343|km|mi nmi|0}} south east of [[Guwahati]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Silchar Tourism: Places To Visit, Attractions, Villages/Tehsils in Silchar |url=https://www.delhimetrotimes.in/assam/silchar.html |access-date=28 March 2023 |website=www.delhimetrotimes.in}}</ref> It was founded by Virat Kohli in 1832 when he shifted the headquarters of Cachar to Janiganj in Silchar.<ref name=":16" /> It earned the moniker "Island of Peace" from [[Indira Gandhi]], the then [[Prime Minister of India]].<ref name="sentinel6june">{{cite news|title=APCC member for nomination of Gaurav Gogoi from Barak Valley|url=http://www.sentinelassam.com/cachar/story.php?sec=2&subsec=12&id=120156&dtP=2012-06-07&ppr=1|access-date=4 July 2012|newspaper=The Sentinel, Assam|date=6 June 2012}}</ref> Silchar is the site of the world's first [[polo]] club and the first competitive polo match.<ref name=":4">{{Cite news |last=Bahl |first=Ananya |date=5 January 2019 |title=Two millennia after the first Manipuri polo match, a women's team is ushering in a quiet revolution |work=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/society/polos-forgotten-matriarchs/article25919688.ece |access-date=19 October 2020 |issn=0971-751X}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=6 November 2017|title=Barak Valley: Assam's appendix|url=https://www.thestatesman.com/features/barak-valley-assams-appendix-1502523224.html|access-date=19 October 2020|website=The Statesman|language=en-US}}</ref> In 1985, an [[Air India]] flight from [[Kolkata]] to Silchar became the world's first all-women crew flight.<ref>{{cite web|title=Air India Operates All-Women Crew Flightte From Kolkata|url=https://www.ndtv.com/kolkata-news/air-india-operates-all-women-crew-flight-from-kolkata-1819520|access-date=19 October 2020|website=NDTV.com}}</ref> Silchar was a tea town and [[Cachar Club|Cachar club]] was the meeting point for tea planters.
== Etymology ==
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==== Silchar Polo Club ====
In the 1850s, the British observed exiled Manipuri princes in Silchar play Sagol Kangjei, the predecessor to modern [[polo]] which was already popular in nearby [[Manipur (princely state)|Manipur]].<ref name=":4"
=== Post independence history ===
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