During a function held at the Jatiya Bhawan, Malow-Ali in Jorhat, former Vice-Chancellor of Tezpur University, Prof Madan Sharma released a book on Assamese language movement and bloodshed of 1960, on Saturday.
Chief Editor of the largest comprehensive dictionary in Assamese, ‘Asomiya Jatiya Abhidhan’ and a research scholar Dr Devabrata Sharma wrote the book.
The principal of Jorhat College (Amalgamated) after doing three years of painstaking research assisted by Dayasagar Kalita, Dr. Devabrata Sharma published the 700-page book titled ‘Asomiya Jati Gathan Prokriya (Second part), Asomat Bhasa Andolonar Tragic Trilogy and 1960 Sanar Bhasa Andolon’.
Dr Sharma said 150 people were killed, 10,000 houses burnt during the violence that erupted over the establishment of Assamese as an official language in Assam.
The research work was conducted for finding out the causes and forces behind the violence.
The book release function was attended by family members of the people killed on opposite sides during the violence.
Family members of Ranjit Borpujari, Girish Deuri, Shisir Nag, Mofizuddin Ahmed, Kalachand Paul and Jotish Ghose were felicitated on the occasion.
The gathering was addressed by Dr Sushanta Kar, a known researcher on language and Upendrajit Mahanta and called for restoring friendly relations.
Principal of Jorhat Jatiya Vidyalaya, Santana Sharma released the Assamese translated version of ‘Political Economy of Breast Cancer’ and four dramas pertaining to feminism, children and Adivasi women, in the same function.