THE CONTRIBUTION OF NABAKANTA BARUA'S NOVEL "KAPILIPARIYA SADHU" IN THE FIELD OF ASSAMESE LITERATURE: AN ANALYTICAL STUDY
Nabakanta Barua, a well revered member of the Assamese literati, contributed to various disciplines of Assamese Literature including poems, novels, songs, articles and children's literature. Nabakanta Barua is revered in the Assamese literature world for his persona as a poet and a novelist. In addition to introducing revolutionary changes to the modern Assamese poetry, Barua has been admired for his contribution in the Assamese Novel literature. He presented Assamese literature with several well written and uniquely avored novels, which were based on real life. While the novels reect the cultural heritage of the author in their chapters, the folk life resonates in the words. Nabakanta Barua encompassed a uniquely untrodden and vast area with his multi genre novels. His writings, which have given Assamese literature more than one path to grow and ourish, provide much to study and to understand. This study attempts to analyze the various elements that has been reected in his novel "Kapilipariya Sadhu" It is a qualitative analysis of the sample both as textual and content.