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1. have known Srl Dimbesar Neog for about forty years, both as a student and as a fellow-woicer in the field of me literature. I have been greatly impressed by his stendfast devotion to literary pursults both in the creative and critical spheres which he has been following in spite of enormous odds and death culties This book contains a mase of in- formation about the progress and development of the Assamese litera- ture from the earliest times to the present, and it represents the author's life-long labours in the study of As- samese literature, the results of which he has already embodied in several valuable publications written in As- mese The present book will be e- ful for the purpose of reference and seles students may be induced to read the volume in its entirety." -S. K. BRYAN, E. Vice-Chancel- Tor, Cauhati University