About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Assamese poets, Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Assamese, Srimanta Sankardeva, Mamoni Raisom Goswami, Dimbeswar Neog, Bhabendra Nath Saikia, Homen Borgohain, Bhabananda Deka, Mithinga Daimary, Phani Sarma, Anuradha Sharma Pujari, Rita Chowdhury, Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, Banikanta Kakati, Rebati Mohan Dutta Choudhury, Utpal Dutta, Jogesh Das, Nilmani Phookan, Laxminath Bezbarua, List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Assamese language, Aruni Kashyap, Dhrubajyoti Bora, Parvati Prasad Baruwa, Anandaram Dhekial Phukan, Nabakanta Barua, Khiren Roy, Atul Chandra Hazarika, Brajanath Sarma, Mitra Phukan, Krishna Kanta Handique, Harekrishna Deka, Uddipana Goswami, Hem Barua, Jahnavi Barua, Srutimala Duara, Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya, Dhruba Hazarika, List of Assamese periodicals, Madhavdeva, Hiren Bhattacharyya, Arupa Kalita Patangia, Siddhartha Sarma, Hem Chandra Barua, Nitoo Das, Amulya Barua, Nakul Chandra Bhuyan, Madhava Kandali, Padmanath Gohain Baruah, Sandhya Bhraman. Excerpt: Mahapurusha Srimanta Shankardeva (1449-1568) (Assamese: ), saint-scholar, playwright, social-religious reformer, is a colossal figure in the cultural and religious history of Assam, India. He is credited with providing a thread of unity to Assam straddling two major kingdoms (Ahom and Koch kingdoms), building on past literary activities to provide the bedrock of Assamese culture, and creating a religion that gave shape to a set of new values and social synthesis. The religion he started, Mahapuruxiya Dharma, was part of the Bhakti movement then raging in India, and he inspired bhakti in Assam just as Ramananda, Guru Nanak, Kabir, Basava and Chaitanya Mahaprabhu inspired it elsewhere. His literary and artistic contributions are living traditions in Assam today. The religion he preached is practiced by a large population, and Sattras ...
