Bhaskar Jyoti Goswami
The great Indian movement for freedom from colonial rule and the humiliation, exploitation and oppression of the masses by unknown rulers was without doubt one of the most significant developments in the muniment of India as a whole. It was under the influence of this movement and re redressable to the direct or indirect contact with great leadership standardized Mahatma Gandhi and others that ever the unlettered masses also had veritable a virtuoso of nationalism, self-consciousness and felt the deep impulse to become free from the colonial yoke. Indeed leaders wish well Gandhi had become iconic figures of such magnitude that for the average India, they were rated not much below the very gods and dieties. Such a familiar reverence for the leaders of the freedom movement was as genuine among the people of Assam and the north-eastern region as it was in the rest of India.
And though geographically placed in a remote area, by nature averse to hero-worship and bent towards a wonted(prenominal) scepticism, the people of this part of the country also considered the leaders as demi-gods. The clearest proof of this is found in many contemporary folk-songs that pay rich tributes to leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Gangadhar Tilak etc. from the Indian mainland and others like Tarun Ram Phukan, Nabin Ch. Bordoloi etc. from this region.
While such folklore material is most-valuable for providing reflections of the growth of nationalism in Assam, there is also a group of material containing an alternative popular perception nigh and projection of these leaders which have received little or no scholarly attention. A few folk-songs, sayings or proverbs authentic among the Assamese people, mostly from lower Assam, reflect a sense of protest against and ridicule of certain actions of the leaders. Such projections necessarily enjoyed wholly a...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com
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