Assamese people and 2012, 2,442 illegal immigrants from Bangladesh had been expelled from the state. The central home ministry said in 2004 that it estimated a total of five million illegal immigrants in Assam.Shri Indrajit Gupta, the then Home Minister of India stated in the Parliament on 6 May, 1997 that there were 10 million illegal migrants residing in India. Assamese people The Assamese people are the indigenous people of the state of Assam. They are a physically diverse group formed after years of assimilation of Austroasiatic, Dravidian, Indo-Aryan, Tibeto-Burman and Tai populations. The total population of native Assamese speakers in Assam
Assamese literature century period, scarce examples of the language exist. The "Charyapada"s, the Buddhist ballads of 8th-10th century some of whose composers were from Kamarupa and the language of which bear strong affitinities with Assamese (beside Bengali, Maithili and Oriya), are considered the first examples of Assamese literature. The spirit of the "Charyapadas" are found in later-day "Deh-Bicaror Geet" and other aphorisms; and some of the ragas found their way to the 15th-16th century "Borgeets". In the 12th-14th century period the works of Ramai Pundit ("Sunya Puran"), Boru Chandidas ("Krishna Kirtan"), Sukur Mamud ("Gopichandrar Gan"), Durllava Mullik ("Gobindachandrar Git") and Bhavani Das