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The Assamese history has been derived from multiple sources. The Ahom kingdom of medieval Assam maintained chronicles, called Buranjis, written in the Ahom and the Assamese languages. History of ancient Assam comes from a corpus of Kamarupa inscriptions on rock, copper plates, clay; royal grants, etc. that the Kamarupa kings issued during their ...
Mising is an endonym which literally means "man of the soil." Miri, on the other hand, is an exonym commonly applied by plains Assamese people. The origin of the term Mising is believed to be coming from the river named Siang that connects with Brahmaputra in Assam.
"The identity politics of language and script in South Asia" (PDF). Depart. Vol. 17. pp. 24– 31. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 May 2017. Goswami, Upendranath (1983). "The Assamese Script". Journal of the Assam Research Society. 27. Kamarupa Anusandhan Samiti. Neog, Maheshwar (1980). Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement ...
Early History of the Vaiṣṇava Faith and Movement in Assam: Śaṅkaradeva and His Times. Motilal Banarsidass Pub. ISBN 978-81-208-0007-6. Maheswar Neog (1980). Anandaram Dhekiyal Phukan. Sahitya Akademi. Maheswar Neog (1982). Socio-political Events in Assam Leading to the Militancy of the Māyāmariyā Vaiṣṇavas. Centre for Studies in ...
Following an assurance of financial support from the ICSSR, New Delhi, the Publication Board, Assam, engaged H K Barpujari to edit a multi-volume comprehensive history of Assam covering the prehistoric times to 1947. Barpujari envisioned "that in a project of national importance the best talents of the country need be utilised, and that the ...
Assam was placed under the administration of Bengal Presidency. In April 1836, Bengali was declared the language of the courts in Assam, replacing Assamese in the Brahmaputra valley. [1] Bengali was also used as the medium of instruction in the educational institutions of Assam. Within decades, the Assamese began to resent the state of affairs. [2]
Bordoloi is more famous as the Walter Scott of Assamese literature, being a writer of historical novels, having spent much time as researcher for E. A Gait's A History of Assam. The first English weekly The Times of Assam was printed from the "Radhanath Press" in Dibrugarh and the first issue came out on 5 January 1895. It was edited by ...
An illustration of tea cultivation in Eastern Bengal and Assam. Eastern Bengal and Assam possessed one of the most fertile lands in the British Empire. The eastern Bengal delta was the rice basket of the Indian subcontinent. It produced 80% of the world's jute, and dominated supply in the once thriving global jute trade.