In Pictures: Assam’s Majuli, India’s Only Island District

The Quint brings you pictures from the Majuli island which is soon going to become India’s first island district.

Majuli island is all set to become the country’s only island district on Thursday. The island, which is the constituency of Assam’s chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal is Assam’s cultural capital and the world’s largest inhabited river island.

In the following pictures, we take you through one of India’s culturally rich yet backward river islands: