A History of Assam c3.5

c3.5

In spite of this there is, probably, no part of India regarding whose past less is generally known. In the histories of India as a whole, Assam is barely mentioned, and only ten lines are devoted to its annals in the historical portion of Hunter's *Indian Empire*. The only attempt at a connected history in English is the brief account given by Robinson—some 43 pages in all—in his *Descriptive Account of Assam*, published in 1841. Two histories have been published in the vernacular, one by Kāsinath Tāmuli Phukan in 1844, and the other by the late Rai Gunābhirām Barua Bahadur in 1884. The former deals only with the Ahoms. The latter gives also a brief account of other dynasties who formerly ruled in the Brahmaputra valley. But both are far from complete, and a mass of new material is now available.