Assamese Brahmin

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Assamese Brahmins are the Brahmin community present in the Assamese society. There they have historically promoted knowledge and religion, including branches such as literature, astronomy, and philosophy. The Brahmins migrated to Assam from Videha (Mithila), Kannauj, Bengal (Gauda) and many other places.

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A Brahmin priest performing daily prayers
Assam, India
Assamese
Hinduism
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Assamese Brahmins are the Brahmin community present in the Assamese society. There they have historically promoted knowledge and religion, including branches such as literature, astronomy, and philosophy. The Brahmins migrated to Assam from Videha (Mithila), Kannauj, Bengal (Gauda) and many other places.

The earliest historical evidence of settlement of Brahmins in Assam comes from various epigraphic sources of the Varman dynasty (350–650). In the late medieval period beginning with the early 16th century, a number of Brahmins from Mithila, Benaras, Kanauj, Bengal and Puri (Srikshetra), were settled in western Assam by the Koch kings for performing Brahminical rites. During the reign of Nara Narayan (1554-1587) of the Koch dynasty, two Brahmins named Siddhantavagisa and Vidyavagisa were brought from Gauda and Siddhantavagisa was responsible for the spread of Hinduism in the Koch kingdom Even during the reign of Koch king Prannarayana (1633-1655), Brahmins were brought from Mithilia to serve in the Koch kingdom and this process was later continued by the Ahom state especially under the Tungkhungia Ahom kings with Siva Singha donating 19 out of the 48 landgrants by the Ahom kings to Brahmins. The migration of Brahmins into Assam took place from Central Himalayas as well. Most of these migration took place due to the foreign invasions in North India and on the invitation by the local rulers. Traditionally these Brahmins held the highest positions in society.

Traditionally, the ceremony of Lagundeoni – one of the samskaras or rites of passage marking acceptance of a student by a guru, is a quite prevalent ritual within the community.

Brahmins of the Assam valley follow a different death ritual as opposed to the other indigenous communities in Assam. A religious rite, known as Caturthā is performed on the 4th day of a person's demise unlike Tiloni, performed on the 3rd day of person's demise by non–Brahmin indigenous communities.

Although in general Brahmins observe all the customary rituals, they appear usually less rigid in some of their traditional lifestyle choices, such as they may eat meat, fish, unlike their counterparts in other parts of India like the North and the South.

The Brahmins constitute one of the Forward classes of Assam based on the classifications of Government of India, although the recent trend on economic condition has not been very well within the community. Assam's former Chief Minister, Tarun Gogoi announced setting up of development councils for several communities in the state, including Brahmins.

NamePortraitNotabilityReferences
Anundoram BorooahIndia's 1st Indian District Collector, 6th Imperial Civil Service officer & 1st Graduate from Assam/Northeast India.
Hem Barua (original name was Hem Chandra Sarma Barua)Former 3 times Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from Assam.
Lakshminath Bezbarua
Bijoy Chandra BhagavatiFormer Union Minister of State in Second Nehru ministry
Gopinath Bordoloi1st Chief Minister of Assam & 2nd Prime Minister of Assam
Himanta Biswa SarmaChief Minister of Assam
Jaimini BhagwatiIndiam High commissioner to United Kingdom
Phani Sarma
Bijoya ChakravartyFormer Member of Rajya Sabha
Zubeen Garg
  • Kanyakubja Brahmins
  • Manipuri Brahmins
  • Assamese people
  • Bengali Brahmins

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