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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 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 ...
When the Tai-Shans entered the region in 1228 under the leadership of Sukaphaa to establish Ahom kingdom in Assam for the next 600 years, again a new chapter of cultural assimilation was written, and thus the modern form of Assamese culture developed. The original Tai-Shans assimilated with the local culture adopted the language on one hand and ...
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 ...
The Buranji-based A History of Assam came under criticism from nationalists represented by the Kamarupa Anusandhan Samiti (English: Assam Research Society), that emerged in 1912 amidst the annual convention of the Uttar Bangia Sahitya Parishad (English: North Bengal Literary Society). [67]
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.
Hemkosh (Assamese: হেমকোষ, IPA:) is the first etymological dictionary of the Assamese language based on Sanskrit spellings, compiled by Hemchandra Barua.It was first published in the early 20th century under the supervision of Capt. P. R. Gordon, ISC and Hemchandra Goswami, 33 years after the publication of Bronson's dictionary.
Undivided Assam included five of the seven contiguous states of Northeast India—with Tripura and Manipur not being a part of it. Prior to the Partition of India , Sylhet was a part of Assam. Undivided Assam had a total area of 234,568 km 2 (90,567 sq mi) which is slightly smaller than the nation of Ghana .