From: "Rajen Barua" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
"Dilip/Dil Deka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "utpal borpujari"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Assam] my
introduction
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 10:35:05
-0500
If you want to know the Geographical
boundary of Upper Assam and Lower Assam, generally a vertical
line drawn
from Biswanath Chariali in North Bank may be said to
the demarkation. This
line will probably go through somewhere in
Xilghat on south bank. The British
used to have Soki (post) at this
location when they divided Assam into Upper
Assam and Lower Assam and
gave (temporarily) Upper Assam to Purandar Singha at
an annual revenue
of Rs 50000 whci eventually the king dafaulted and the British
took
back Upper Assam into their own hands.
However, one
can use
the linguistic test also to diffrentiate an Upper Assamese. I
have found that
normally an Upper Assamese use certain words and
phrases which a Lower Assamese
doesnot and vice versa.
You can try the folloiwng words which
probably a lower Assamese doesnot use:
TAKETW = Normally an Upper Assamese
use
when responding to one in a positive
manner.
KAHANIKOI = meaning which day. TUMI
KAHANIKOI JABA?
In fact I remember, Mr Abani Hazarika (the
cricket player) used to tease and laugh at me whenever I use the
word
'kahanikoi'. That is how I remember that probably in lower Assam,
they donot use
the word.
Similarly there are many such terms which
a
Lower Assamese use which an Upper Assamese does not use. May be
someone will
come up with some such words.
Rajen Barua
.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005
9:22
AM
Subject: Re: [Assam] my
introduction
Welcome to the group, Utpal.
I have a few questions for you - well actually for many others in
this
net.
Where exactly is Upper Assam? Being from Upper Assam - does it
connote an
ethnical difference from the people in Guwahati? Or is it
a cultural
difference? Was it a cultural shock for you when your
family moved to Guwahati
(in Lower Assam?) from Upper Assam? What
was the compelling reason that forced
your family to settle in
crowded Guwahati?
I have always wondered why everyone in Assam wants to buy a plot of
land
in Guwahati after retirement and become a Guwahatian.
Dilip Deka
Houston, TX
utpal borpujari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Hi everybody. Am a new entrant to the group. Thought would
introduce
myself, and hope to interact with all on issues
concerning Assam
(Asam/Axam/Axom?) I am a journalist based in
Delhi. Have been in the
profession for about 12 years. Started out
with The Sentinel in Guwahati in
1993, moved to PTI in Delhi in
1995 and since last four years been working
with the Delhi News
Bureau of Bangalore-based English daily Deccan Herald.
If you ask
about my origins: I am from Guwahati (settled there since 1978
though we are from Upper Assam originally). - Utpal Borpujari
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