I found this srticle on the newsgroup soc.culture.indian.
Indian Military deployment in Assam & Ahom/Ahomiya
Tuesday June 07 2005 17:53:54 PM BDT
Dr. M. Hazarika from UK
Dear Mr. Abedin, Subject: Indian Military deployment in Assam & Ahom/Ahomiya
in :
http://www.bangladesh-web.com/�news/view.php?hidDate=2005-06-�07&hidTyp...
Many thanks for highlighting the military and security efforts by India
making it a densest soldiered part in the world which speaks volumes about
the ongoing freedom movement in Assam. I would rather make a briefest
comment on the main theme in your article of the migration of your
countrymen to Assam.
As you very rightly pointed out, the then British administration in Assam
from the early 1880's brought in many thousands of your countrymen to settle
in Assam to enhance the Agri-Revenue. These settlers are distinguishable
easily from the ones arrived in Assam later on. We need to remember that
Indian administration did set up special Settlement Offices after 1947 to
look after the interests of the new arrivals across the border. The illegal
economic migrants should receive the same treatment as per international
norms.
It is amazing that this heavily soldiered region for almost for the last 15
years with 10 million(estimated) of indigenous native original population
has found itself to have a population of 25 million at the last census. Is
it far fetched looking at these numbers that in the disguise of settling
refugees the Indian administration has over the years has furtively reduced
the indigenous population into a minority letting the look alike people to
come in both legally and illegally with a perverse aim of keeping the
integrity of India intact? May I respectfully point out the word ~Ahom� in
your piece has been misrepresented. The Ahoms are a people, a part of the
Assamese nation.
I believe, because of phonetical aberrations you have chosen to write it
that manner to mean ~Assamese actually; as you have written ~Ahomiya to mean
the Assamese language. The Assamese language has ONLY one distinctive sound
for THE 3 different alphabets. These alphabets are also present in Bangla
script[ie. The shaws ].
This distinctive sound still exists amongst your country folks particularly
clearly in Sylhet to remind us of the Kumrupi influence to the edge of
Korotoya river and that of the Carjageetis( Spiritual songs of Buddhist
Philosophy). Carjageetis( Sorzapods in Assaemese). These songs unmistakably
are closest to Assamese vocabulary and structure to any neutral observer. I
think now it will be easy for you to understand what I am suggesting
shortly. Assam is an anglicised word for Awxom/Awhom/Ohom/Asom and the
language Assamese is Awxomiya/Ohomiya.
If one writes Ahom/Ahomiya it is likely to be understood as an attribution
to the Ahoms. Although many explanation has been given for the name Awxom, I
believe it is nearer you than anywhere else. Surprised? There is a word in
Bangla �?~Ohom�?T meaning proud. I have met few of country men of yours in
the past who have described the Assamese as a ~proud race. That perception
and describing people of the Kingdom of Assam in a similar fashion likely to
have stuck and with sophistication became Awxom/Awhom/Asom.
The Assamese people call themselves Awxomiya/Awhomiya/Ohomiya. By the way if
the word ~Ohom is derived form of Sanskrit ~Ohongkar or essentially an
ancient word from the region I do not know. Please note that Awxhom/Awhom/
Ohom & Awxomiya/Awhomiya/ Ohomiya all are closest representation to carry
the actual phonetics. I trust you will find this feed back informative.
Regards and best wishes.
Dr. M. Hazarika
United Kingdom
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Neep Hazarika
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