• PURANDA GOGOI

Assam is a land of various tribes and communities. Assamese culture is a result of evaluation occurred due to many cultures like Aryan, Kirat’, Dravid, Nikhad. The various tribes and communities of Assam and their traditions, customs, festivals, folk dances, ward robe etc. have enriched the heritage of Assamese culture. A significant feature of traditional cuisines of Assamese tribes is locally produce wine. The wine plays an important role among the various communities of Mongoloid tribes of north east. The Ahoms, who contributed in glorifying the Assamese culture also traditionally used wine. They called it ‘XAJ-PAANI’ or ‘ LUKOLAU’. In this research paper, we have tried to study about the rice-beer (Xaj-paani) used in death rituals of ‘Poka Ahom’ of Dhakuakhana. We have used descriptive and analytical method for the purpose and done field study for securing information about folk songs related to rice-beer.

Assam; Ahom; Rice-beer (Xaj-paani); Dhakuakhana; cuisines; folk songs.

"Folk songs centering around locally produced Rice-beer by Ahoms of Dhakuakhana (Special mentioning of songs sung in death anniversary)", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.295-301, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907E44.pdf

"Folk songs centering around locally produced Rice-beer by Ahoms of Dhakuakhana (Special mentioning of songs sung in death anniversary)", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp295-301, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907E44.pdf