In the distant past, wild cows were often a menace to villagers in this area due to which the district got its name.

His son, Bijit Narayan, was made Zamindar of the region between the Manas and Sankosh: from him the Bijni family descended.

[2] In the late 1750s, the East India Company strengthened their influence in Bengal and Lower Assam.

In 1822 the East India Company created Goalpara district containing present-day Lower Assam, the Garo Hills and northeastern Rangpur division in Bangladesh.

The Bijnis continued to pay tribute to the British, and even gained a small amount of land after the Duar War in 1865.

Rangpur and the Garo Hills were eventually stripped away to form different districts, but Goalpara continued to be administered as part of a Cooch Behar province.

[3] Bongaigaon district occupies an area of 1,093 square kilometres (422 sq mi),[4] comparatively equivalent to Réunion.

The places that are worth visiting in Bongaigaon are eco-park, Bagheswari temple, tea garden, and Suryapahar.

[9] The district religious composition are as follows: Hindu 359,145, Muslim 371,033, Christian 5,924, Sikh 384, Buddhist 236, Jain 871 as per 2011 census report.

[10] Way back in 1971, Hindus were slight majority in Bongaigaon district with forming 69.8% of the population, while Muslims were 27.8% at that time.