Re: [Assam] Assamese Culture and Ahom Kings

2005-12-31 Thread mc mahant
___ We discussed what  Henry Ford said about HISTORY. Now we should realize that she played to the gallery. And how are we to believe that the reporter heard her right and filed Ditto? We heard about Goebbels-Hitler's able Publicity chief. He is on record on saying something derogatory about CUL

Re: [Assam] Assamese Culture and Ahom Kings

2005-12-29 Thread Dilip/Dil Deka
Thank you for reading my email. But I feel cheated because you commented without going into the details. If you read the link I attached and other available material, you will see that a great number of the Ahom kings did not favor Xankardev's movement, in fact hindered it. A few liked what Xankard

Re: [Assam] Assamese Culture and Ahom Kings

2005-12-29 Thread Chan Mahanta
Title: Re: [Assam] Assamese Culture and Ahom Kings >Am I missing something here? *** What immediately jumps out is: ">because of the people living in Assam" (--but not Ahoms  -- since their king did not patronize 'xotriya' culture?) Who were these people then? ***

[Assam] Assamese Culture and Ahom Kings

2005-12-29 Thread Dilip/Dil Deka
Assamese culture may have reached its zenith during Ahom rule, chronologically; But did the rulers help? What culture are we talking about? Culture spread by the Xatras like Bhaona, Xatriya Nritya etc.? If so we cannot give a lot of credit to the Ahom kings' administration for the growth of Assames