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Assamese literature

Index Assamese literature

Assamese literature (translit) is the entire corpus of poetry, novels, short stories, documents and other writings in the Assamese language. [1]

63 relations: Ahom kingdom, Arupa Kalita Patangia, Assam, Assam Sahitya Sabha, Assamese language, Assamese poetry, Atul Chandra Hazarika, Baptists, Bengali language, Bengali literature, Bhabendra Nath Saikia, Bhubanmohan Baruah, Bible, Birinchi Kumar Barua, Borgeet, Buranji, Chandidas, Charyapada, Chinese language, Devi Prasad Bagrodia, Gauhati University, Guwahati, Harivara Vipra, Hem Barua, Hema Saraswati, Homen Borgohain, Indian literature, Jonaki (magazine), Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, Kamarupa, Kamarupa inscriptions, Kamarupi Prakrit, Kamata Kingdom, Kambar (poet), Krittibas Ojha, Krittivasi Ramayan, Lakshminath Bezbaroa, List of Assamese writers with their pen names, List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Assamese, Madhava Kandali, Maithili language, Mamoni Raisom Goswami, Miri Jiyori, Missionary, Nabakanta Barua, Nalini Bala Devi, Nathan Brown (missionary), Odia language, Orunodoi, Oxomiya Bhaxa Unnati Xadhini Xobha, ..., Padmanath Gohain Baruah, Printing press, Pumsavana, Ramavataram, Ramcharitmanas, Sankardev, Saptakanda Ramayana, Saurabh Kumar Chaliha, Shreekrishna Kirtana, Sivasagar, Tibetic languages, Tulsidas, United Kingdom. Expand index (13 more) »

Ahom kingdom

The Ahom kingdom (1228–1826, also called Kingdom of Assam) was a kingdom in the Brahmaputra Valley in Assam, India.

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Arupa Kalita Patangia

Arupa Kalita Patangia (aka Arupa Patangia Kalita, অৰূপা কলিতা পতংগীয়া) is an Assamese novelists and short story writer and known for her fiction writing in Assamese.

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Assam

Assam is a state in Northeast India, situated south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys.

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Assam Sahitya Sabha

The Assam Sahitya Sabha (Ôxôm Xahityô Xôbha or "Assam Literary Society") is a non Government, non profit, literary organisation of Assam.

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Assamese language

Assamese or Asamiya অসমীয়া is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language spoken mainly in the Indian state of Assam, where it is an official language.

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Assamese poetry

Assamese poetry is poetry in Assamese language.

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Atul Chandra Hazarika

Atul Chandra Hazarika (1903–1986) was a prominent Assamese litterateur from Assam.

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Baptists

Baptists are Christians distinguished by baptizing professing believers only (believer's baptism, as opposed to infant baptism), and doing so by complete immersion (as opposed to affusion or sprinkling).

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Bengali language

Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla (বাংলা), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in South Asia.

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Bengali literature

Bengali literature (বাংলা সাহিত্য, Bangla Sahityô) denotes the body of writings in the Bengali language.

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Bhabendra Nath Saikia

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Bhubanmohan Baruah

Bhubanmohan Baruah (ভূবনমোহন বৰুৱা; 1914 - 1998) was a novelist, short story writer from Assam.

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Bible

The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, "the books") is a collection of sacred texts or scriptures that Jews and Christians consider to be a product of divine inspiration and a record of the relationship between God and humans.

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Birinchi Kumar Barua

Birinchi Kumar Barua (born November 10, 1908, Puranigudam, Nagaon, Assam, India, died March 30, 1964) was a folklorist, scholar, novelist, playwright, historian, linguist, educationist, administrator and an eminent 20th century littérateur of Assam, with both scholarly and creative pursuits.

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Borgeet

Borgeets (বৰগীত, songs celestial) are a collection of lyrical songs that are set to specific ragas but not necessarily to any tala.

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Buranji

Buranjis are a class of historical chronicles, written initially in the Ahom and afterwards in Assamese language.

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Chandidas

Chandidas (চণ্ডীদাস; born 1408 CE) refers to a medieval poet of Bengal or possibly more than one.

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Charyapada

The Charyapada (চর্যাপদ Sôrzapôd) (চর্যাপদ Chôrjapôd) is a collection of mystical poems, songs of realization in the Vajrayana tradition of Buddhism from the tantric tradition during the Pala Empire in Ancient Bengal, Bihar, Orissa.

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Chinese language

Chinese is a group of related, but in many cases mutually unintelligible, language varieties, forming a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family.

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Devi Prasad Bagrodia

Devi Prasad Bagrodia (দেবী প্ৰসাদ বাগড়োদিয়া.), is a noted writer, social worker and tea planter based in Dibrugarh in Assam, India.

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Gauhati University

Gauhati University is located in Jalukbari, Guwahati, is the oldest and most renowned University in the entire North East India.

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Guwahati

Guwahati (Pragjyotishpura in ancient Assam, Gauhati in the modern era) is the largest city in the Indian state of Assam and also the largest urban area in Northeast India.

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Harivara Vipra

Horibor Bipro (Assamese:হৰিৱাৰা ৱিপৰা) is amongst the earliest known Assamese writers.

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Hem Barua

Hem Barua (হেম বৰুৱা) (22 April 1915 – 9 April 1977) was a prominent Assamese poet and politician from Assam.

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Hema Saraswati

Hema Saraswati (হেম সৰস্বতী) (fl. late 13th century) was amongst the earliest known Assamese writers, most known for his poem, Prahlada Charita, the earliest known poetic work in Assamese language.

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Homen Borgohain

Homen Borgohain (হোমেন বৰগোহাঞি) is an Assamese writer and journalist.

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Indian literature

Indian literature refers to the literature produced on the Indian subcontinent until 1947 and in the Republic of India thereafter.

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Jonaki (magazine)

Jonaki (জোনাকী, Moonlight) was an Assamese language magazine published from Calcutta in 1889.

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Jyoti Prasad Agarwala

Jyoti Prasad Agarwala (1903–1951) was a noted Assamese playwright, songwriter, poet, writer and film maker from Assam.

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Kamarupa

Kāmarūpa (also called Pragjyotisha), was a power during the Classical period on the Indian subcontinent; and along with Davaka, the first historical kingdom of Assam.

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Kamarupa inscriptions

The Kamarupa inscriptions are a number of 5th-century to early 13th-century rock, copper plate and clay seal inscriptions associated with the rulers and their subordinates of the Kamarupa region.

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Kamarupi Prakrit

Kamarupi Prakrit is a Middle Indo-Aryan language first spoken in North Bengal and the Brahmaputra valley.

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Kamata Kingdom

The Kamata kingdom (pron: ˈkʌmətɑ:, Assamese: কমতা ৰাজ্য) appeared in the western part of the older Kamarupa on the Indian subcontinent in the 13th century, after the fall of the Pala dynasty.

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Kambar (poet)

Kambar (Kamban in casual address) (c. 1180, Therazhundur, Nagapattinam district, India – 1250) was a medieval Tamil poet and the author of the Ramavataram, popularly known as Kambaramayanam, the Tamil version of the epic Ramayana.

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Krittibas Ojha

Krittibas Ojha Sen, Sukumar (1991, reprint 2007).

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Krittivasi Ramayan

Krittivasi Ramayan (কৃত্তিবাসি রামায়ণ), or Krittibasi Ramayan or Sri Ram Panchali (শ্রীরাম পাঁচালী), composed by 15th century Bengali poet Krittibas Ojha, is rendition of the Ramayana into Bengali.

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Lakshminath Bezbaroa

Lakshminath Bezbaroa /lokh-mi-nah-th bez-boh-ruu-ah/ (লক্ষ্মীনাথ বেজবৰুৱা, लक्ष्मीनाथ बेजबरुवा; 1864–1938) was a great Assamese personality and celebrated pioneer of modern Assamese literature.

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List of Assamese writers with their pen names

Assamese literature is the entire corpus of poetry, novels, short stories, documents and other writings in the Assamese language.

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List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Assamese

Sahitya Akademi Award is given each year, since 1955, by Sahitya Akademi (India's National Academy of Letters), to writers and their works, for their outstanding contribution to the upliftment of Indian literature and Assamese literature in particular.

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Madhava Kandali

Kaviraja Madhava Kandali (মাধৱ কন্দলী; pronounced as "Madhob Kondoli") (14th century) was an Assamese poet of India, notable for the earliest rendering of the Valmiki Ramayana into Assamese verse (Saptakanda Ramayana).

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Maithili language

Maithili (Maithilī) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Bihar and Jharkhand states of India and is one of the 22 recognised Indian languages.

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Mamoni Raisom Goswami

Indira Goswami (14 November 1942 – 29 November 2011), known by her pen name Mamoni Raisom Goswami and popularly as Mamoni Baideo, was an Assamese editor, poet, professor, scholar and writer.

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Miri Jiyori

Miri Jiyori (মিৰি জীয়ৰী; literally: The Miri Maiden) is an Assamese novel written by Rajanikanta Bordoloi.

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Missionary

A missionary is a member of a religious group sent into an area to proselytize and/or perform ministries of service, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.

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Nabakanta Barua

Nabakanta Barua (29 December 1926 – 14 July 2002) was a prominent Assamese novelist and poet.

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Nalini Bala Devi

Nalini Bala Devi (23 March 1898– 24 December 1977) was a noted Indian writer and poet of Assamese literature, known for nationalistic as well as mystical poetry.

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Nathan Brown (missionary)

Nathan Brown (নাথান ব্ৰাউন; 22 June 1807 – 1 January 1886) was an American Baptist missionary to India and Japan, Bible translator, and abolitionist.

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Odia language

Odia (ଓଡ଼ିଆ) (formerly romanized as Oriya) is a language spoken by 4.2% of India's population.

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Orunodoi

Orunodoi or Arunodoi (Assamese: অৰুণোদই, English: "Sunrise") is the first Assamese-language magazine published from Sibsagar, Assam, in 1846.

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Oxomiya Bhaxa Unnati Xadhini Xobha

Oxomiya Bhaxa Unnati Xadhini Xobha (অসমীয়া ভাষা উন্নতি সাধিনী সভা, Assamese Language Development Society) was a literary organization formed on Saturday 25 August 1888 (1810 Saka).

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Padmanath Gohain Baruah

Padmanath Gohain Baruah (পদ্মনাথ গোহাঞি বৰুৱা; 1871–1946) was the first president of Asam Sahitya Sabha and a prominent name in the early part of modern Assamese literature.

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Printing press

A printing press is a device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink.

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Pumsavana

Pumsavana (पुंसवन) (literally: quickening the fetus, or engendering a male issue) is the second of the 16 saṃskāras (sacraments, rite of passage) in ancient texts of Hinduism.

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Ramavataram

Ramavataram, popularly referred to as Kamba Ramayanam, is a Tamil epic that was written by the Tamil poet Kambar during the 12th century.

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Ramcharitmanas

Ramcharitmanas (Devanāgarī: श्रीरामचरितमानस, IAST: ŚrīRāmacaritamānasa), is an epic poem in the language Awadhi, composed by the 16th-century Indian bhakti poet Goswami Tulsidas (c.1532–1623).

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Sankardev

Srimanta Sankardev (1449–1568) (translit) was a 15th–16th century Assamese polymath: a saint-scholar, poet, playwright, social-religious reformer and a figure of importance in the cultural and religious history of Assam, India.

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Saptakanda Ramayana

Saptakanda Ramayana is the 14th-century Assamese version of the Ramayana attributed to the poet Madhava Kandali.

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Saurabh Kumar Chaliha

Saurabh Kumar Chaliha (সৌৰভ কুমাৰ চলিহা; 1930 – 25 June 2011) is the pen name of a famous Assamese short story writer.

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Shreekrishna Kirtana

Shreekrishna Kirtana Kabya (শ্রীকৃষ্ণকীর্তন কাব্য) or Sri Krishna Kirtana Kabya is a pastoral Vaishnava drama in verse composed by Boru Chandidas.

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Sivasagar

Sivasagar (Pron: or) (Xiwôxagôr), previously spelled Sibsagar, ("the ocean of Siva Singha"), is a city in the Amazonas region of Assam, about northeast of Guwahati.

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Tibetic languages

The Tibetic languages are a cluster of Sino-Tibetan languages descended from Old Tibetan, spoken across a wide area of eastern Central Asia bordering the Indian subcontinent, including the Tibetan Plateau and the Himalayas in Baltistan, Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhutan.

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Tulsidas

Tulsidas (Hindi: तुलसीदास;, also known as Goswami Tulsidas (गोस्वामी तुलसीदास); 1511–1623) was a realized soul and saint, poet, often called reformer and philosopher from Ramanandi Sampradaya, in the lineage of Jagadguru Ramanandacharya renowned for his devotion to the Lord Shri Rama.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assamese_literature

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