Assamese Literature

AEAL Ahom Ahom history Ahom kingdom Asamiyā aspects Assamese drama Assamese language Assamese poetry B. K. BARUA Barā Bardoloi Baruā beauty Bengali Bezbarua Bhaben Bhāgavata Bhāgavata-purāņa biographies Brahmaputra branches of literature Burañji cantos Chandra characters Choudhury collections composed contemporary contributed Cooch Behar dealing decade depicts dramatists Durlabhanārāyaṇa Dvija early Assamese literature Eastern Assam epic episodes expression Gauhati Gohain Goswami Harivara HEM BARUA Hemchandra Hemchandra Barua historical plays humorous independence KAKATI kāvyas king Kṛṣṇa Lakṣmināth large number literary criticism Madhava Kandali Madhavadeva Mahābhārata Manakara missionaries modern Assamese literature mythological plays Nāga narrative nature noteworthy novelist patriotic period Phukan playwrights plots poems poet poetic popular pre-independence prose published purāņas purāņic rāgas Rāma Rāma Sarasvati Rāmāyaṇa religious rendered romantic S. N. SARMA Sankaradeva Sanskrit Sarasvati Sarma satirical sattras scholars short stories Simha sixteenth century social society songs stage style technique translated Vaiṣṇavism Vaiṣṇavite Vṛndāvana writers written