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JOURNAL OF CRITICAL REVIEWS, 2020
The transitional period of the nineteenth century Assam covers a long period of political disturb... more The transitional period of the nineteenth century Assam covers a long period of political disturbances leading to the establishment of the British rule. This resulted in the overall changes in the North Eastern part of the Indian subcontinent. Though there was no major social movement like the other parts of the sub-continent, the contemporary literature reflects the social life of the nineteenth century and identifies the odds and evils prevailing in the Assamese society American Baptist Missionaries, too, focussed on this evil from time to time in their Assamese mouthpiece, Orunodoi (1846-82). Anandaram Dhekiyal Phukan and Maniram Dewan also reported to A. J. Moffat Mills (1853) that the use of opium had converted the Assamese people into effeminate and degraded people.. The satirical writings of Hemchandra Barua (1835-1896) namely, Kaniyar Kirtan (1861) and Bahire Rang Sang Bhitare Kuwabhaturi (1876) show the gradually deteriorating condition of the Assamese society. In the preface, Barua wrote that the play Kaniyar Kirtan was composed to expose the mischievous effect of opium eating among the Assamese. In the Royal Opium Commission (1893) though Hemchandra could not appear in front of the Commission in Calcutta, he managed to send an English translated copy of the play. The Inspector of Schools of Bengal Government has also referred to the Kaniyar Kirtan as a good number of expression and idioms in the play which was peculiar to the people of Assam and Assamese language while arguing to implement the Bengali language in the Assamese courts and elementary schools in 1873. The proposed paper is an attempt to analyse the reformist agenda of the nineteenth century as reflected in Assamese literature in understanding the contemporary social issues specially the issue of opium and the diverged attitude towards it.
JOURNAL OF CRITICAL REVIEWS, 2020
The transitional period of the nineteenth century Assam covers a long period of political disturb... more The transitional period of the nineteenth century Assam covers a long period of political disturbances leading to the establishment of the British rule. This resulted in the overall changes in the North Eastern part of the Indian subcontinent. Though there was no major social movement like the other parts of the sub-continent, the contemporary literature reflects the social life of the nineteenth century and identifies the odds and evils prevailing in the Assamese society American Baptist Missionaries, too, focussed on this evil from time to time in their Assamese mouthpiece, Orunodoi (1846-82). Anandaram Dhekiyal Phukan and Maniram Dewan also reported to A. J. Moffat Mills (1853) that the use of opium had converted the Assamese people into effeminate and degraded people.. The satirical writings of Hemchandra Barua (1835-1896) namely, Kaniyar Kirtan (1861) and Bahire Rang Sang Bhitare Kuwabhaturi (1876) show the gradually deteriorating condition of the Assamese society. In the preface, Barua wrote that the play Kaniyar Kirtan was composed to expose the mischievous effect of opium eating among the Assamese. In the Royal Opium Commission (1893) though Hemchandra could not appear in front of the Commission in Calcutta, he managed to send an English translated copy of the play. The Inspector of Schools of Bengal Government has also referred to the Kaniyar Kirtan as a good number of expression and idioms in the play which was peculiar to the people of Assam and Assamese language while arguing to implement the Bengali language in the Assamese courts and elementary schools in 1873. The proposed paper is an attempt to analyse the reformist agenda of the nineteenth century as reflected in Assamese literature in understanding the contemporary social issues specially the issue of opium and the diverged attitude towards it.