Former Vice-Chancellor of Tezpur University, Prof Madan Sharma released a book on the Assamese language movement and bloodshed of 1960. The book released in a function held at the Jatiya Bhawan, Malow-Ali in Jorhat on Saturday. The 700-page book titled ‘Asomiya Jati Gathan Prokriya (Second part), Asomat Bhasa Andolonar Tragic Trilogy and 1960 Sanar Bhasa Andolon’ has been published after three years of painstaking research by Dr Devabrata Sharma.

The research scholar, Dr Devabrata Sharma has written this book. He was assisted by Dayasagar Kalita in the project. He is also the chief editor of the largest comprehensive dictionary in Assamese, ‘Asomiya Jatiya Abhidhan’. Dr Sharma said 150 people were killed, 10,000 houses burnt during the violence that erupted over the establishment of Assamese as an official language in Assam.  Devabrata Sharma said the research was carried out to find the reason and forces behind the violence.

The Assamese translated version of ‘Political Economy of Breast Cancer’ by Santana Sharma, principal of Jorhat Jatiya Vidyalaya and four dramas pertaining to feminism, children and Adivasi women, written by Santana Sharma were also released in the same event. 

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