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The people who shaped Assam's history and culture.

Bara-Bhuyans

A painted portrait of Srimanta Sankardev seated cross-legged beneath a tree, a white halo behind his head, the sacred thread across his chest, holding a lotus, with a brass sarai offering stand and a painted wheel motif beside him

Srimanta Sankardev

The fifteenth-century saint who founded Assam's neo-Vaishnava (Eka Sarana) movement and, with it, much of modern Assamese culture.

Figures · Storied Assam