Background: how the High Court that issues Assam's orders was established

Background

The directions now reaching Assam's districts, from the order on children in adult jails to the ruling on civil marriage, all come from the Gauhati High Court. Its origins lie in a resolution that the Assam Legislative Assembly adopted on 9 September 1947, asking for a High Court for the Province of Assam. The Governor General acted on that demand by promulgating the Assam High Court Order, 1948 on 1 March that year. Under that Order the High Court of Assam came into existence with effect from 5 April 1948. The court that sits today as the Gauhati High Court grew out of that original court. The sequence is worth holding because it places the court's birth in the months just after independence rather than in the colonial period. Candidates are often asked to date the establishment of a particular High Court.