26 SOCIAL SCIENTIST 26 B C Alien, op, cit., p 191; Hunter, op, cit., p 245. 27 Quoted in Alien, Mowgong District Gazetteer) Calcutta, 1905, p 169. 28 Rev P H Moore, "General View of Assam", paper read before the Jubilee Conference of the American Baptist Mission Union, 1886, p 10; Alien, op. cit., pp 181-186. 29 Ibid. 30 Orunodoi, November 1846; Harakanta Sadaraminar Atmo-jivani, North Gauhati, 1960, pp 79-80. 81 For an account of the mauzadari system, see Assam Land Revenue Manual, 1917, pp 210 fF.Allen remarks in his J^owgong District Gazetteer, p 161: "There are no rich men amongst the Assamese in Nowgong, and very few who are even moderately well-to-do." The Assamese journal Jonaki in the .September, 1905 issue observes pathetically that the only big men among natives in Assam are the Extra Assistant Commissioners or Deputy Collectors. 32 Assam Land Revenue Manual. 33 Harakanta Sadaraminar Atmo-jivani, p 82. 34 Advocate of Assam complained on November 11, 1904, that not a single .educated Assamese had been appointed in Cotton College. Files of vernacular newspapers are rich in such clamour. 35 Br cornfield, op. cif. 36 Census of India, 1891, Vol I (Assam), Report by E A Gait. 37 Alien, op. cit. 38 Gait, op. cit. 39 Haren Kolita, Guahati Biswa-bidyalaya Karmi Santhar Mukhapatra, Vol I, No I, 1963-64. Only 10 candidates appeared in the Arts Degree examination from Assam in 1911, and 7 passed. {The Census of India, 1911, Vol III). 40 Kolita, op. cit., mentions the report of the DPI, Cunningham, curtly dismissing the demand for a university in Assam. 41 Census of India, 1911, Vol III, pp 86-87. 42 Paul Baran, Political Economy of Growth, Monthly Review Press, New York, 1960, pp 165 ff, 187 ft. 43 Sibsagar District Gazetteer. 4( Ibid. 45 Hunter, op. cit., p 263; Alien, op. cit., pp 144-145, p 177. Ward, Introduction, Assam Land Revenue Manual, pp xlii-xlvii. 46 Gait, op. cit., p 77. 47 Ward, op. cit., p xlv. 48 Chandra Kumar Agarawala complained in his newspaper, Asomiya. 49 L N Phukan, Mahatmar Pora Rupkonwaraloi, Calcutta, 1969, pp 89-103. 50 Census of India 1891, Vol I, p 58. 51 Census of India 1911, Vol III, p 9. 52 Ibid., pp 8-10. See also Gait, op. cit., pp 59-60. 53 Upendranath Barua, op. cit., p 9. 54 Ibid. See also Major John Butler, Travels and Adventures in the Province of Assam, London, 1859, p 239, p 240. 55 Bezbarua, Rachanavali, Vol II, p 137. 56 Census of India, 1891, p 157. 57 S K Bhuyan, Anundoram Barua, Gauhati. 58 Bezbarua, op. cit., p 432. 59 V V Rao, A Hundred Tears of Local Self-Government in Assam, Gauhati, 1965, pp 144-164. For British domination in such local bodies see Upendranath Barua, op. cit., p38. 60 K N Dutta, op. cit., p 69. 61 Krishna Sarmar Diary, Publication Board, Assam, 1972, pp 71 ff. For the important and influential loyalist trend in Assam politics see P D Goswami, Manick Chandra Barua, Gauhati, 1971.