Assam Culture

The Assam Valley Literary Award is presented by the Magor Educational Trust to recognize notable contributions to Assamese literature.

A conventional sarod has four main playing strings, although modern instruments also contain additional sympathetic and rhythm strings. The key refers to the principal playing strings.

The second session of the Assam Sahitya Sabha was held at Goalpara. The Sabha’s annual sessions helped spread Assamese literary and cultural activity across the state.

Madhavdeva, the foremost disciple of Srimanta Sankardeva, was born in 1489 CE. He composed major works such as Nam Ghosa.

The traditional Ahom marriage ceremony is known as Chaklang. It is an important element of Ahom social and cultural tradition.

Homen Borgohain wrote the Assamese novel Halodhiya Choraye Baodhan Khai. It received the Sahitya Akademi Award for Assamese literature in 1978.

Dr. Bhupen Hazarika presided over the Assam Sahitya Sabha session in 1993. He was a major figure in Assamese music, literature and culture.

The headquarters of the Assam Rifles is at Shillong, Meghalaya. It is India’s oldest paramilitary force, with origins in the 19th century.

In Ali Ai Ligang, “Ai” refers to rice. The Mising festival is associated with the beginning of the agricultural cycle and paddy cultivation.

Cotton College was established in 1901 at Guwahati during the colonial period. It later developed into Cotton University in 2017.

Bishnuram Medhi is popularly remembered as the Iron Man of Assam. He served as Chief Minister of Assam from 1950 to 1957.

The capital of the Salastambha (Mlechchha) dynasty was Harupeswara, identified with the historical Kamarupa region near modern Tezpur.

Renuka Devi Barkataki was the first Assamese woman to become a cabinet minister in Assam. She held important ministerial responsibilities in the state government.

The source key identifies Meera Sarma as the first Assamese woman judge of a High Court. The question is a regional “first” fact and should be retained with the source-key attribution.

Nathan Brown was the first editor of Orunodoi, the pioneering Assamese periodical first published in 1846 from Sivasagar.

The title Lokpriya was conferred on Gopinath Bordoloi by Jairam Das Daulatram, the Governor of Assam. Bordoloi was the first Chief Minister of Assam after independence.

Village Rockstars, directed by Rima Das, was India’s official submission for the 2019 Oscars in the Foreign Language Film category.

The title “Kalaguru” was conferred on Bishnu Prasad Rabha by Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. Rabha was a leading Assamese artist, cultural activist and revolutionary.

Bishnu Prasad Rabha was the first person from Assam associated with the title “Kalaguru”. His contribution covered music, dance, painting, literature and social activism.

Banphool, a poetry collection by Nalinibala Devi, was the first Assamese poetry work to receive the Sahitya Akademi Award, in 1968.