case study on personal and professional growth in assamese language

The first autobiography written in Assamese language, Harakanta Sadar Aminor Atmajibani (Autobiography of Harakanta Barua Sadaramin) written in the 1890s and published later in 1960, has the word atma (self) in the title and records the life of the speaker exploring mostly his professional life as a Sadar Amin under the British.

The section also deals with how this process was closely linked to the re-interpretation of the region's relationship with Indo-Gangetic culture, and the impact on development of the modern ‘Assamese’ language. The second section interprets modern Assamese novels in the light of the issues raised in the first section.

The history of Assamese identity is a rather interesting one for the very reason that it is at once a story of the formation and transformation of the community. It has been remarked by one author (Misra 2001) that what has been happening in Assam over the past few decades in the matter of the widening of the parameters of the Assamese ...

The upper caste Assamese faction, finding a contender in Singha, began patronizing the Assamese language movement in the 1970s. 3 In 1972, the academic council at Gauhati University mandated Assamese as a medium of instructions in all institutions under it, including those in the Bengali dominated regions of the state like Cachar. Though ...

Given the above approaches and shifts, where do we situate the study of Assamese language and literature, especially in its relation to the making of the north east Indian frontier?3 This paper seeks to argue for the relevance of region in the analysis of South Asian literature, especially when discussing borders and continental crossroads and ...

The First Assamese newspaper was Dainik Batori, published from the Thengal Bhawan, 8 km from Jorhat town on 12 August 1935. Tea baron Shivaprasad Barua started the paper. Earlier, too he had managed a paper called Sadinia Batori. When the Dainik Batori was started, Bagmibor Nilmoni Phukan was appointed as its editor.

PDF | On Aug 4, 2022, Meghali Misra and others published A Case Study on Language Attitude among the tribal students in Radiant International School, Sonapur, Assam | Find, read and cite all the ...

Language, gender and power dynamics in Assamese This paper seeks to explore the gender inequalities and sexism inherent in the Assamese language which belongs to the Indo-Aryan language family. On the basis of some lexical categories an attempt has been made in order to analyze if the male or the female can serve as the superordinate or the ...

The language in the province too faced the wind of the change. Assamese, the vernacular language of Assam, has a long history of its existence. But prior to British rule, it was not taught as a subject in the absence of schools in the modern sense of the term. The Assamese intelligentsia of the pre-British periods was much influenced by

Following this, informed written consent was sought from the participants. Interviews were conducted in either Assamese language or the local dialect, depending on each participant’s preference. The interviews in the Assamese language were carried out by the lead author and for all others, the help of a translator was taken.