Book Summary
- Editor: Compiled and edited by Dipti Phukon Patgiri
- Year of Publication: 2020
- ISBN: 978-93-82680-37-6
- Price: 200
Asomiya Omala Geet is a collection of Assamese play songs and nursery rhymes collected and edited by Professor Dipti Phukon Patgiri and published by ABILAC in the year 2020. This book consists of a good number of play songs and nursery rhymes collected during a field study by the compilers. Most of these play songs and rhymes are collected from undivided Darrang, Undivided Kamrup and Undivided Goalpara districts of Assam along wih the ones available in standard Assamese language. In its preface the complier Prof. Phukon Patgiri has presented a brief and valuable discussion on the definition, nature and value of such play songs which are gradually disappearing due to various obvious reasons. She has stressed on the preservation of such relics and cosiders this compilation is an important step towards that. This book consists of 112 pages.