Influence of Saiva Sampradaya in Assam can be seen through Siva Purana composed by Ahom king Rudra Singha – the grandeur & powerful rituals of which are still deeply engrained in Assamese culture
Dhurjjati Sarma is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Indian Languages and Literary Studies, Gauhati University, Assam. He was earlier a Production Editor at SAGE Publications, New Delhi, and, before that, a Research Fellow in North East India Studies at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi. He is presently engaged in studying the early and modern literatures of Assamese, Bengali, Hindi, and Urdu from a comparative-cultural perspective. As a student and teacher of comparative literature, he is also trying to develop new insights and perspectives on the composite area of comparative literary history. His writings have been published under Sahitya Akademi, Routledge, and Palgrave Macmillan and in journals like “Space and Culture, India” and “Margins: A Journal of Literature and Culture.” He is presently working on a critical history of Assamese literature.
