Assam, and it extends up to about 1800 A.D. All the great Writers of ancient Assamese literature lourished in this period, and the literature was chiefly employed for the propagation of Vaisnavism. I propose to call. this as the Vaisnavite period or Vasaava-gage. | ৫ The fifth period begins about 1800 A. D., with the consolidation of the Ahom power in the country, and it extends up to 1400. A.D., about which time the country
- came under British rule. This period was marked with
great literary activities and numerous books were written on a variety of subjects by writers of all grades, but on the whole it was a period of deterioration owing to the depreda tions caused by the Moamarias and the Burmese. As the literature in this period lost in depth it gained in surface, and so I propose to call this the period of extension or %eta-ga, The set of the last period commences in 1800 A.D., with the advent of the British and it continues up to the present time, with the spread of English education the vernacular literature of the country assumed a new mould, and I propose to call this the modern age or Vartama-gaga,” On the recommendation of the Council of Post-Graduate Teaching in Arts, the Senate at its meeting held on the 31st August, 1914, appointed Srijut Hemchandra Goswami to prepare the selections from Assamese literature on an honorarium of Rs. 2,003, An additional sum of Rs. 400 was subsequently sanctioned for the services of a copyist. | sir Asutosh Mookeriee could not have hit upon. a more competent person for the work than Mr. Goswami, while & student of the Presidency College he had compiled the first . systematic history of Assamese language and literature, । The British came to Anam in 1826, and noden Assamese literature tied with the induence of the new cond began tom th date. The would have been ng material disadvantage the afth period of Mr. Goswami' clasification h anded in, Nud the arth period agun from, th year,
