Dark Age of the Assamese language completely. In order to restore the Assamese Language, he took the matter to the British India administration of the time. Eliza Brown was Nathan's wife and she had been partner of her husband's mission. Dark Age of the Assamese language The Dark Age of Assamese Language is the time-frame during which Bengali Language eclipsed the Assamese. This time-frame is about 37 years long, from 1836 until 1873. During British India, the Bengali Language was imposed over Assamese as the British took over Assam. The clerical and technical workers that they brought were Bengali, imposing Bengali as the medium of instruction
Assamese literature to use this dialect in translating the Bible in 1813. The Missionaries established the first printing press in Sibsagar in 1836 and started using the local Asamiya dialect for writing purposes. In 1846 they started a monthly periodical called "Arunodoi", and in 1848, Nathan Brown published the first book on Assamese grammar. The Missionaries published the first Assamese-English Dictionary compiled by M. Bronson in 1867. One of the major contributions of the American Baptist missionaries to the Assamese language is the reintroduction of Assamese as the official language in Assam. In 1848 missionary Nathan Brown published a treatise on the