FEUDALISM IN THE NOVELS OF EMINENT NOVELIST HOMEN BORGOHAIN FROM DOMAIN OF ASSAMESE LITERATURE

Feudalism is a socio-economical concept. There are two groups involved in. one is BHU SWAMI i.e., owner of land and the other being BHUMIHEEN i.e., the landless folk. Land owners perform power to possess the land and the landless people make no stone unturned to plough the land in order to reap harvest. In exchange of it they earn a tiny fraction of crops they produce. Federal system is a vast chapter in history of Assam. The base of it was formed intensively during reign of Ahom kingdoms. But the exploiting and atrocious ways of the federal systems pushed Ahom dynasty towards adversities. Muamuriah revolution was called for against this Ahom feudalism. Though some religious issues were causes for this revolution, it was, chiefly by the common people as a protest against rising oppression and exploitation. After Assam came under the British rule the age old system of feudalism crumbled into dust. British had kicked off new ways for administration and hence they did create new portfolios. And in those new posts British appointed those aristocratic men who nurtured sense of feudalism. Well known Assamese scholar , Prafulla Mahanta distributed these rules into two parts : in the first group there are village Moujadars , Mandals, The head of villages, Pandits, Satradhikaars who did not need to pay tax and the Priests ; the second part did comprise of Magistrate, Judiciary officials, Peskar, Clerks, Policeman, Advocates and Doctors. In rule of these two parties the working people had to face much act of brutality as far as feudalism was concerned. There was a famine that rose in that system. This research paper deals with the analysis that how Assames novelist Homen Borgohain did portray this epoch of feudalism in his works