** Assamese New Year, or Rongali Bihu ( India's Assam Valley )

* Bihu an Assamese dance celebrating the arrival of spring, traditionally the beginning of the Assamese New Year.

Rongali Bihu ( mid-April, also called Bohag Bihu ), the most popular Bihu celebrates the onset of the Assamese New Year ( around April 15 ) and the coming of Spring.

* New Wave of Assamese Heavy Metal Movement

Natun Asom Gana Parishad (' New Assamese People's Association ') was a political party in the Indian state of Assam.

# Assamese New Year or Rongali Bihu ( India's Assam state )

In Assam, dhol is widely used in Rongali Bihu ( Bohag Bihu ), the most beloved festival of the Assamese people.

Bihu (, ) denotes a set of three different cultural festivals of Assam and celebrated by the Assamese diaspora around the world.

Like most other Indian festivals, Bihu ( all three ) is associated with farming ; as the traditional Assamese society is predominantly agricultural.

* Gogona, a similar instrument played by Assamese people ( especially women ) while singing and dancing Bihu

Nowadays, during this period, there are Bihu competitions all over the Assam ( as well as throughout the major locations with Assamese diaspora.

A fashion show with the different attires of the North-East along with popular dance like the Manipuri dance, the famous Mizo bamboo dance and the Assamese Bihu dance.

These murals depict various war moments, Bihu dances and other Assamese iconic representations.

File: Arijit ssk. JPG | Mannequins draped in traditional Assamese Bihu attire depicting the famous Bihu dance of Assam

* On 24 November each year, Lachit Divas is celebrated statewide in Assam, India, to commemorate the heroism of the great general Lachit Borphukan and the victory of the Assamese army over the Mughal army at the battle of Saraighat in 1671.

Turmeric is commonly called ' Halodhi ' in Assamese, Pasupu in Telugu, Kaha ( කහ ) in Sinhala, Manjal ( மஞ ் சள ் ) in Tamil literally meaning yellow color, Arisina ( ಅರ ಿ ಸ ಿ ಣ ) in Kannada, Haridra ( हर ि द ् र ) in Sanskrit, Haldi ( حلدی ) in Urdu and Haldar or Haldi ( हल ् द ी) in Hindi, Haladi ( ହଳଦ ୀ) in Oriya, ' Halud ( হল ু দ )' in Bengali Besar ( ब ॆ स ा र ) in Nepalese.

This dish is called posola in Assamese and a distinct part of Assamese cuisine.

The combination of areca nut with betel leaf is called tamul ( ত া ম ূ ল / " ত া ম ো ল ") in Assamese, kavala in Kannada, tambulam in Sanskrit, bajjai in Tulu, and paan in Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi, and Urdu.

* Each consonant has an inherent vowel which is usually short ' a ' ( in Bengali, and Assamese, it is short ' ô ' due to sound shifts ).

The official language of the Union of India is Hindi, with 21 other regional languages holding co-official status, including: Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.

A Rakshasa ( Sanskrit: र ा क ् षस ः, Kannada: ರ ಾ ಕ ್ ಷಸ, Malay / Indonesian: raksasa, Bengali: rakkhosh, Assamese: raikhox, Tibetan: ས ྲི ན ་ པ ོ་ srinpo, Chinese: 羅剎 luó ​ chà or lo-cha, Japanese: 羅刹 rasetsu, Vietnamese: la sát ) or alternatively rakshas, is a race of mythological humanoid beings or unrighteous spirit in Hindu and Buddhist religion.

It is also one of the main ingredients of East Indian ( oriya and Bengali or Assamese ) pitha.

Assamese or Asamiya ( ) () is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language used mainly in the state of Assam in North-East India.

Along with other Eastern Indo-Aryan languages, Assamese evolved circa 1000 – 1200 AD from the Magadhi Prakrit, which developed from a dialect or group of dialects that were close to, but different from, Vedic and Classical Sanskrit. Its sister languages include Bengali, Chittagonian, Sylheti ( Cilôţi ), Oriya, the Bihari languages. It is written with the Assamese script.

Assamese is written from left to right and top to bottom, in the same manner as English.

The English word " Assamese " is built on the same principle as " Sinhalese ", " Japanese " etc.

Assamese cuisine is a mixture of different indigenous styles, with considerable regional variation and some external influences.

Although it is known for its limited use of spices, Assamese cuisine has strong flavors from its use of endemic herbs, fruits, and vegetables served fresh, dried or fermented.

In Assamese, it is called teteli.

However, in the Bengali and Assamese languages, spoken in Assam, Tripura, and West Bengal, the rupee is known as a Taka, and is written as such on Indian banknotes.

Assamese is a precursor to Devanagari.

In Assamese it is known as xukloti.

One includes the Assamese new year celebrated in April.

The most important festivals of Assam are the Bihus, celebrated with fun and abundance by all Assamese people irrespective of caste, creed, religion, faith and belief.

Anglo-Assamese relations, 1771-1826: a history of the relations of Assam with the East India Company from 1771 to 1826, based on original English and Assamese sources.

Several guerrilla groups seeking to establish an independent Assamese state in northeast India have set up guerrilla bases in the forests of southern Bhutan, from which they launch cross-border attacks on targets in Assam.

Usually on 14 or 13 April according to Assamese traditional calendar

In Silchar, India, eleven people were killed by police firing on 19 May 1961 when protesting legislation that mandated the use of the Assamese language.

* Makara Sankaranti: (, Sanskrit: मकर स ं क ् र ा न ् त ि, Bengali: মকর স ং ক ্ র া ন ্ ত ি, Assamese: মকৰ স ং ক ্ র া ন ্ ত ি, Malayalam: മകര സ ാ ന ്‍ ക ് ര ാ ന ് ത ി, Tamil: த ை ப ் ப ொ ங ் கல ், Telugu: మకర స ం క ్ ర ాం త ి, Marathi: मकर स ं क ् र ा न ् त ि, Kannada: ಮಕರ ಸ ಂ ಕ ್ ರ ಾಂ ತ ಿ) or Sankranti or Sankranthi marks the transition of the Sun into Makara rashi ( Capricorn ) on its celestial path.

The ornaments, too, are based on traditional Assamese designs.

The legend of Princess Usha of Sonitpur and her cohort Chitralekha also enlighten us on the Musical expertise of the Assamese women.

* anvesha. co. in-a bilingual website on Assamese traditional musical instruments

The Sherdukpens migrate to Doimara ( a lowland hamlet close to the Assamese border ) and stayed between December to March on an annual basis during the winter months, a tradition with which the tribe maintain the memory of their Assamese ancestry.

In 2011, some researchers suggested on the basis of morphological variation within the Assamese macaque, that it might be better treated as a subspecies.

Some of the vowel letters have different sounds depending on the word, and a number of vowel distinctions preserved in the writing system are not pronounced as such in modern spoken Assamese or Bengali.

This work has cast a strong influence on Sankardeva, and also later Assamese works.

Based on morphological differences between the Assamese and Chinese varieties, botanists have long asserted a dual botanical origin for tea ; however, statistical cluster analysis, the same chromosome number ( 2n = 30 ), easy hybridization, and various types of intermediate hybrids and spontaneous polyploids all appear to demonstrate a single place of origin for Camellia sinensis — the area including the northern part of Burma, and Yunnan and Sichuan provinces of China.

It is a language based on Assamese and does not truly reflect the various languages and dialects spoken by the different Naga tribes in Nagaland and acts as a binding force to the different tribes of Nagaland.

The Sahitya Bhawan is an archive of Assamese texts and literatures and provides a good reference for any scholar gathering information on Assam or the related North Eastern states.

This is a tank also called Borpukhuri, at a higher elevation than the rest of the town, with three temples (" Doul " s in Assamese ) on its banks.

The intense political agenda of the film with the trials of the Assamese on the India-China border, the love story and the fact that it coincided with the 50th Independence Anniversary celebrations were cited for its failure at the time.

In Silchar, India, eleven people were killed by police firing on 19 May 1961 when protesting legislation that mandated the use of the Assamese language.

He went on to compose for over 75 Hindi films, over 40 Bengali films, around 26 Malayalam films, and several Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Gujarati, Oriya and Assamese films.