Thanks for sharing Saikia's response Mohan. Will you please forward Mr. Saleh's piece to Saikia I posted the other day and ask what she thinks of the information there? It will be interesting to get a historian's perspective on Saleh Saheb's research. I presume Wahid Saleh is an amateur history buff, unlike Saikia who is a pro.
cm At 8:37 AM -0400 9/22/06, Mohan R. Palleti wrote: >I tried my little bit to find the answer to this question that a lot of us >have been asking.....Here is a portion of the transcript I received from >Yasmin Baideo. > >Mohan: >Assam is a British term. It came from the Assam Tea Company that was >established in the second half of the 19th c. Before the British >called it Assam, we have different variations of the name appear in >medieval Mughal documents of the 17th c. There it is called Acham/Aham, >etc. You may want to read my book 'Fragmented Memories: Struggling to >be Tai-Ahom ...(Duke Press, 2004) on this issue. > Yasmin Saikia. > > >Mohan R. Palleti > > > > >_______________________________________________ >assam mailing list >[email protected] >http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
