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1134:"The idea of a composite Assamese or Asomiya 'jati' or nationality took shape during the later part of the Ahom rule. This process had started during the first Muslim invasion from neighbouring Bengal in the 16th century when the people were brought under an Ahom or Assamese banner against the common enemy. Not only were the Ahom successful in repelling the Muslim invasions, but by the 1530s the Ahoms had freed the greater part of Kamrup and Kamata from Muslim occupation and "extended their dominion right up to the Karatoya in Murshidabad in the west and almost to close proximity of Dacc". (
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1199:"he demographic break-up of the Assamese society on the eve of British entry into the province may be said to have included the different ethnic groups brought within the Hindu fold, the caste Hindus, the plains tribal communities and the relatively small number of Assamese Muslims...It is, however, interesting to note that common 19th and early 20th century perceptions about the Assamese nationality were limited almost exclusively to only those people who lived in the Brahmaputra valley." (
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1212:"Here I will follow the lead of Wendy Doniger, who suggests that the development of Hinduism as a whole in South Asia was not simply a process of Sanskritisation, that is, the absorption of non-Hindu traditions into the brahminic system; rather, it also involved a process of ‘Deshification’, that is, the influence of local (deshi) and indigenous cultures on brahmaic religion and the mutual interaction between Sanskritic and deshi traditions." (
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476:(1682 CE) when the Ahoms took direct control over western Brahmaputra valley. Many Muslim soldiers and professionals who had accompanied invading armies or immigrated peacefully since the 13th century, including those from the 16th century, were given power and eminence by the Ahom kings, and they in turn helped the Ahoms in repelling the Mughals. This was also the time when the
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1160:"The Ahom rulers gave positions of power and eminence to the Assamese Muslims and the latter took active part in resisting successive Mughal attempts to overrun the region. The assimilation of this segment of Muslims into Assamese society was so complete that the historians who accompanied the Mughal expeditions into Assam noted that they were more Assamese than Muslim." (
1147:"During the rule of the Ahom monarch, Pratap Singha (1603-41) consolidation of the Assamese community was further sped up because of the common fight against Mughal incursions and encroachment on Assam territory. The Ahom victory over the Mughals in early 1616 was followed by the defeat of the Mughal army led by Ram Singh in the Battle of Saraighat in March 1671" (
788:"All this suggests that Assamese nationalism was a post-British phenomenon. As an ideology and movement it took shape only during the second half of the 19th century, when such questions as the preservation and promotion of the mother-tongue, jobs for the sons of the soil and concern over colonial constraints on development, began to stir Assamese minds." (
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385:, due to linguistically and culturally heterogeneous population. Though there is a political dispute over the definition of Assamese people, in general; the people belonging to the state of Assam are referred sometimes as Assamese people or more appropriately as People of Assam. The lack of a definition has put stumbling blocks in implementing
316:, where they are native and constitute around 56% of the Valley's population. The use of the term precedes the name of the language or the people. It has also been used retrospectively to the people of Assam before the term "Assamese" came into use. They are an ethnically diverse group formed after centuries of assimilation of
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On the eve of
British colonialism in the early 19th century the Assamese society consisted of the hinduised ethnic groups, the caste Hindu groups, the plain tribal groups, and the Assamese Muslims; and the expression of Assamese nationalism in the 19th/20th-century was confined to the Brahmaputra
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populations, and constitute a tribal-caste continuum—though not all
Assamese people are Hindus and ethnic Assamese Muslims numbering around 42 lakh (4,200,000) constitute a significant part of this identity. The total population of Assamese speakers in Assam is nearly 15.09 million which makes up
1173:"Incidentally, literate Ahoms retained the Tai language and script well until the end of the 17th century. In that century of Ahom-Mughal conflicts, this language first coexisted with and then was progressively replaced by Assamese (Asamiya) at and outside the Court." (
525:;—and all Assam's kings were originally non-Indo-Aryan who were gradually Sanskritised. This enabled many of the common folks to follow the ruling classes into Sanskritisation and also bring along with them elements of their own local customs and religions.
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the group that now identifies as Tai–Ahom were historically seen as
Assamese people. However, the term ethnic Assamese is now associated by the Indian government at Delhi with the Assamese speaking Indo-Aryan group (comprising both Hindus and Muslims) of
801:"Assamese micro-nationalism began in the middle of the nineteenth century as an assertion of the autonomy and distinctiveness of Assamese language and culture against the British colonial view of Assam as a periphery of Bengal." (
1024:: "Constitutional, legislative and administrative safeguards, as may be appropriate, shall be provided to protect, preserve and promote the cultural, social and linguistic identity and heritage of the Assamese people."
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institutions created a path for individuals of tribal origins to traverse the tribal-caste continuum. Tribal people could take initiation at a Sattra—and a neophyte would be called a
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The name "Assamese" is of
British colonial coinage of the 19th and 20th century. Assamese is an English word meaning "of Assam"—though most Assamese people live in Assam, not all the
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Despite the lack of a legal definition, social scientists consider the
Assamese identity to constitute a tribal-caste continuum that has been the result of a historical process.
445:(1497–1539) to resist a common enemy. The kingdom not only succeeded in resisting the invasion, but a general pursued the invaders to the Karatoya river and freed most of the
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1238:"Virtually all of Assam's kings, from the fourth-century Varmans down to the eighteenth-century Ahoms, came from non-Aryan tribes that were only gradually Sanskritised."(
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converted to different forms of
Hinduism in the 17th-18th century and a composite Assamese identity comprising caste-Hindus, tribals and Assamese Muslims began to form.
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identity that has been described at various times as nationalistic or micro-nationalistic. This group is often associated with the
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Struggle: The Poetics and Politics of Assamese Micro-Nationalism".
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peoples to become Assamese peasants, especially in Upper and Central Assam; and it was noted that some kayastha
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1059:, The Assam Tribune, 27 March 2007
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1726:Assam Rifles
1664:Biodiversity
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2590:Choudhury (
2585:Chakraborty
2580:Burhagohain
2393:Tokari Geet
2338:The Hemkosh
2024:Upper Assam
1913:Lower Assam
1880:North Assam
1292:Sharma 2009
1279:Sharma 2009
1266:Sharma 2009
1253:Sharma 2009
1227:Sharma 2009
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1008:The Tribune
922:Sharma 2009
803:Baruah 1994
761:2 September
511:Indo-Aryans
230:Tai peoples
2783:Categories
2675:Bongaigaon
2368:Naam Ghosa
2286:literature
2224:Bihu dance
2167:Halflong (
2095:Hailakandi
1989:Dima Hasao
1931:Bongaigaon
1842:High Court
1822:Government
1789:Assam Mail
1721:Assam silk
1399:30 January
1315:References
1240:Urban 2011
1214:Urban 2011
1201:Misra 1999
1188:Misra 1999
1162:Misra 1999
1149:Misra 1999
1136:Misra 1999
716:3 November
591:, Borahi,
443:Suhungmung
353:Definition
326:Indo-Aryan
312:region of
275:Indic text
86:Bangladesh
72:15,311,351
2730:Sivasagar
2715:Karimganj
2685:Dibrugarh
2655:Sutradhar
2575:Borphukan
2565:Borgohain
2219:Bagurumba
2114:Geography
2100:Karimganj
2067:Sivasagar
2057:Lakhimpur
2037:Dibrugarh
2032:Charaideo
1946:Kokrajhar
1888:Biswanath
1871:divisions
1867:Districts
1837:Governors
1716:Assam tea
1689:Education
1659:Etymology
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1175:Guha 1983
1096:The Hindu
976:The Hindu
961:wikt:-ese
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863:Deka 2005
790:Guha 1984
777:Deka 2005
625:Sankardev
617:Chandalas
613:Kaibartas
585:Kayasthas
557:saru-koch
453:regions.
341:Etymology
232:of Assam
113:Languages
2745:Tinsukia
2705:Guwahati
2700:Golaghat
2695:Goalpara
2638:Majumdar
2628:Hazarika
2560:Borbarua
2403:Hiranaam
2398:Dihanaam
2152:Dhansiri
2072:Tinsukia
2047:Golaghat
2009:Morigaon
1961:Goalpara
1903:Udalguri
1898:Sonitpur
1749:Kamarupa
1706:Politics
1382:23006027
1073:Archived
1052:Archived
643:See also
581:Brahmins
523:Kamarupa
496:valley.
407:clause 6
397:and the
387:clause 6
183:Buddhism
150:Minority
146:Hinduism
136:Majority
130:Religion
124:Assamese
2768:History
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2670:Barpeta
2623:Goswami
2555:Bharali
2545:Bhuiyan
2536:Barua (
2466:Brahmin
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2236:Borgeet
2181:Culture
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1936:Chirang
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1893:Darrang
1741:History
1711:Tourism
1684:Economy
1679:Culture
1674:Cuisine
1579:Capital
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567:-Koch,
552:Sarania
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389:of the
203:Sikhism
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108:Unknown
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2720:Nagaon
2710:Jorhat
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2619:Gohain
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2443:People
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2363:Dasham
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2295:cinema
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1951:Kamrup
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