[Assam] [asom] Re: Assam or Asom Mailing List

Fri Aug 11 23:56:00 PDT 2006

The correct position regarding the names Assam and Oxom are as follows:

Assam was known as Kamrup in the middle ages. Huen Tsang who visited the land in the 7th century described it as  Kamrup.

Then the Shan or Syam tribe from Upper Burma conquered Kamrup in the 13th century. Local people used to call these people as  Asam or Asyam which is a derivation from the word Syam. Since then our land was known as Asyam or Assam by the Moguls and all other people in India. The Ahom buronjis as well as the Mogul historians used to describe the land as Asyam or Asam.  When the British came, they have formalized the English spelling to Assam.

>From this word Asyam, the word Oxom was derived in local Assamese language. Originally used by Sri Xongkordev in his Kirton, the word Oxom used to mean the Shan or Syam people in Assamese. Later the word went phonetic change to become Ahom to represent the Syam people while the word Oxom was adopted in the 17th century to mean the land of Assam in local Assamese language.  But so far as outside Assam, all know our land as Assam till today. Even when Assam got independence in 1947, the official name of the land was adopted as Assam in the Constitution. The word Oxom does not exits in the Constitution.

Thus Assam has two names; Official name Assam and local name Oxom.
The case is similar to India which also has two names: Official name India and local name Bharat.

We should recognize this fact that words Assam and Oxom are two separate words and we should leave these as they are. The word Oxom is not an Assamese translation of the word Assam like the word Bharat which is not  an Indian translation of the word India. Like we are not trying to change the word India to Bharat, we should leave the words Assam and Oxom as two separate words and not try to change anything. If we know the correct derivation of these two words, we will see that the words Assam represent the Monglian culture while the word Oxom represent the Aryan culture in Assam. Both the words are local Assamese words. We need both the words.

The spelling 'Asom' on the other hand is, as correctly stated by MM is neither here nor there and is a Bhusung Pohu spelling in my opinion.  It simply shows how dumb and ignorant the Assamese intellectuals are (are there any Assamese intellectuals really?).  To lead these ignorant Assamese dumb intellectuals here comes the leaderless The Assam Tribune, a litikai News paper,  who is sticking to the spelling Asom like a obedient servant of GOA.  People are taking it with a typical Assamese 'Hobo Diok' attitude. Some ignorant people are following Assam Tribune and writing Asom. This simply shows how a litikai nation the Assamese are. May be the Assamese people  are waiting for some Central minister to tell them what is right. No wonder Assam is at the bottom of the Indian ladder. A Nation which does not know the root of its own name, deserve to be at the bottom.

GOA is thinking that if it does not say or do anything, people will forget oneday that it ever took a resolution to change the name to Asom, and things will simply die down. However, some people are preparing to file a case against the GOA and to use the Right To Information Act to shake up the litikai nation to action. 

I say Hobo Diok.

RB

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: mc mahant 
  To: w.saleh at hetnet.nl 
  Cc: assam at assamnet.org 
  Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 8:29 PM
  Subject: Re: [Assam] [asom] Re: Assam or Asom Mailing List

  Glad You asked Saleh Sahab,

  Adaab,

  The answer -I venture to chirp in- is obvious: "Call me by my natural name"

  And that we always knew our land as OXOM -not Assam- which somebody called and would not like to be changed.

  Asom   is neither here nor there.

   Regards

  mm

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    From:  "Wahid Saleh" <w.saleh at hetnet.nl>
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    Subject:  [asom] Re: Assam or Asom Mailing List
    Date:  Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:06:44 -0000
    >The diary of Dutch soldiers who fought with Mirjumala's army and
    >documents from the Mughal period show that the name "Assam" was in
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    >Assam to Asom. What is the reason?
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