ABSTRACT
Gohain Baruah’s plays show not only how he attempted to make his language/narrative inclusive of ethnographic variety, but also to develop language and narrative structure which could accommodate the variety. The ethnographic and geographic linkage, importantly, was part of the everyday, in fact, constituted the everyday as well as the exception. Jaymati was written in 1902, and it is to the credit of Gohain Baruah’s historical sense that he could highlight the fact of shared mapping of socio-spatial relations in the historical past. Gohain Baruah and Bezbaruah are two examples of the engagement of language and narrative with the issue of historical and ethnographic diversity or mutiplicity. The problem in both their writings was how to create a common or universal language or narrative which could both accommodate and represent the diversity which comprised the Assamese identity.
