In 1826 the British accessed Assam and Goalpara was annexed to the North-East Frontier in 1874, along with the creation of district headquarters at Dhubri.

Goalpara district occupies an area of 1,824 square kilometres (704 sq mi),[3] comparatively equivalent to South Korea's Jeju-do.

[4] In 2006 the Indian government named Goalpara one of the country's 250 most backward districts (out of a total of 640).

[7] Following are the present MLA's of Goalpara- According to the 2011 census Goalpara district has a population of 1,008,183,[8] roughly equal to the nation of Cyprus[9] or the US state of Montana.

[12] Way back in 1971, Hindus were slight majority in Goalpara district with forming 50.1% of the population, while Muslims were 41.5% at that time.