Drama is a form of literary art projected through acting. Assamese drama as literature has a long history. In Assamese literature the beginning of plays through the ‘Ankiya’ drama popularised by the great Sage Srimanta Sankardeva. This trend of assamese ‘Ankiya’ play from took a giant leap in the hands of Madhabdeva and other great sages who followed the footsteps of Sankardeva and continued till the arrival of the Britishers. After the arrival of the Britishers Assamese drama took a new attire. In 1857 Gunaviram Baruah’s maiden modern play Ramnavami created a fresh wave of drama in Assamese language which later on influenced dramatists and writers like Hemchandra Baruah, Rudraram Bordoloi, Ramakanta Choudhury, Laxminath Bezbaruah, Padmanath Gohain Baruah, Benudhar Rajkhowa, Durgaprasad Majinder Baruah, Chandradhar Baruah, Durgeswar Sarma, Jyotiprasad Agarwala, Atul Chandra Hazarika and others