![]() In 2015, noted Assamese writer-art critic Moushumi Kandali wrote her riveting short story in Assamese, Mayabi Tirutabur (Those Enchanting Women) – hinging it on this description of 19 th century Assamese women by McCosh. ![]() The inhabitants of most provinces look down upon the Assamese as enchanters, and the women come in for a large share of suspicion – indeed, they all are believed to be enchantresses.” Unfortunately, their morality is at a low ebb. the women roam about in public divested of artificial modesty practised by native ladies in other parts of India. I do not mean Hindoostani beauty, but the Assamese women have a form and feature closely approaching Europeans…. Many of them would be considered beautiful. They are very fair, indeed fairer than any other race I have seen in India. He penned, “The women of this country, they form a striking contrast to the men. McCosh’s description of Assamese women in that report – one of the earliest on the region by the British officers – was particularly striking. ![]() New Delhi: In 1835, nine years after the British took control of the Ahom kingdom of Assam, an assistant surgeon, John McCosh, wrote Topography of Assam after a protracted visit to this new colonial territory. ![]()
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