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 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