Duars

Also spelled �Dwars, or Dooars, � region of northeastern India, at the foot of the west Assam Himalayas. Its 3,400-square-mile (8,800-square-kilometre) area is divided by the Sankosh River into the Western and Eastern Duars. Both were ceded by Bhutan to the British at the end of the Bhutan War (1864 - 65). The Eastern Duars, in western Assam state, comprises a level plain intersected by numerous rivers and only slightly populated.