ABSTRACT
The injustice done to the Assamese language was undone over a century ago; and it is interesting to note that both the adoption of Bengali for official purposes and its replacement by the more legitimate claimant to that honour, Assamese, were both done under the provisions of the same legislation, Act 29 of 1837. The subsequent labours of these missionaries, especially of Nathan Brown and Miles Bronson, are now part of history in Assam. Perhaps this very failure of the missionaries to secure converts from the Assamese society has lent their scholarly labours an aura of unselfish and disinterested love for the language of the people. What is more relevant is the revival of interest in the work of the missionaries who laboured so valiantly for the restoration of Assamese to its legitimate place in Assam and the recollection, even if not in total tranquillity, of all those ancient battles in the present context in Assam.
