Cultural studies in assam

The Assam Accord was a Memorandum of Settlement (MoS) signed between representatives of the Government of India and the leaders of the Assam Movement.
It was signed in the presence of the then-Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in New Delhi on 15 August 1985.
Later, the Citizenship Act was amended for the first time the following year, in 1986.
It followed a six-year agitation that started in 1979.
Led by the All Assam Students’ Union (AASU), the protestors demanded the identification and deportation of all illegal foreigners – predominantly Bangladeshi immigrants.
They feared that past and continuing large scale migration was overwhelming the native population, impacting their political rights, culture, language and land rights.
The Assam Movement caused the estimated death of over 855 people.
The movement ended with the signing of the Assam Accord.

Assam Down Town University was established through the Assam Down Town University Act, 2010 in the state of Assam, India in 2010.
The university is located in Panikhaiti, Guwahati, the capital of Assam.
The campus is based out of a 42 acres campus overlooking the Brahmaputra River, only 12 km from the Assam State Secretariat, Dispur; the capital complex of the state of Assam.

Assam separatist movements refers to a series of multiple insurgent and separatist movements that are or have been operating the in Northeast Indian state of Assam.
The conflict started in the 1970s following tension between the native indigenous Assamese people and the Indian government over alleged neglect, political, social, cultural, economic issues and increased levels of illegal immigration from Bangladesh.
The conflict has resulted in the deaths of 12,000 United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) militants and 18,000 others.

Colonial Assam (1826–1947) refers to the period in the history of Assam between the signing of the Treaty of Yandabo and the Independence of India when Assam was under British colonial rule.
The political institutions and social relations that were established or severed during this period continue to have a direct effect on contemporary events.
The legislature and political alignments that evolved by the end of the British rule continued in the post Independence period.
The immigration of farmers from East Bengal and tea plantation workers from Central India continue to affect contemporary politics, most notably that which led to the Assam Movement and its aftermath.

The earliest Indo-Aryan migration to Assam is estimated to have occurred between the 2nd century BCE and 1st century CE—not earlier than 500 BCE.
The earliest epigraphic record suggests that the Indo-Aryan migration began latest by the middle of the 4th century CE.
They came from the Gangetic Plains into a region already inhabited by people who spoke Austroasiatic and Tibeto-Burman languages.

Kamakhya, A Socio-Cultural Study is a comprehensive book on the Kamakhya temple complex in Guwahati, Assam.
The book is authored by Nihar Ranjan Mishra and published by D.
K.
Printworld Pvt Ltd in 2004.
The book makes a detailed study of the temple rituals, festivals and personnel and socio-cultural life and includes an account on spread of Saktism in the region.

Painting of Assam, the art of manuscript painting in the Assam region developed through the movement of Vaishnavism.
Vaishnava saints were primarily responsible for the establishment of manuscript painting tradition in Assam.
A large number of manuscript paintings were done and copied during the 16th to 19th centuries.
Assam has a very long history of visual art from the pre-historic age up to the end of Ahom rule in 1826 A.D.
Among the earliest reference of Assam painting, the account of Chinese traveller Xuanzang records that King Bhaskaravarman of Kamarupa who was a friend of King Harsa of Kanauj presented the king “Carved boxes of panels for painting with brushes and gourds.