MAYONG VILLAGE AASAM INDIA
Mayong Land of Black Magic 40 km from the city of GUWAHTI AASAM
There are many stories about how this place got its name. Many people also believe that earlier people from the Maibong clan used to live in this area and place might have got its name from them.
Mayong Village Near Old Mayong Land Of Black Magic
History and Facts
When Mughal general Raja Ram Singh was ordered by Aurangzeb to take an army to Assam and subdue the Ahoms in 1667, he picked up the assignment with trepidation. He didn't fear the Ahom military might, but Assam's fearsome reputation as a land of black magic. Mayong, a village some 40 km from Guwahati, was the deemed capital of the occult. Ram Singh took along ninth Sikh guru Teg Bahadur to ward off evil. Teg Bahadur inadvertently introduced the Sikh faith in Assam, but couldn't save the Mughal generalissimo from defeat. The Mughals were routed in the Battle of Saraighat in 1671 and Ram Singh beat a hasty retreat, never to return. He was lucky; a few others before him did not come back alive. Ikhtiyaruddin Yuzbuk Tughril Khan, a sultan of Bengal invaded Assam in 1256-57 and perished with his army there. Alamgir Nama of Mirza Muhammad Kazim, a chronicle of the first 10 years of Emperor Aurangzeb's reign, while talking about an invasion by Muhammad Shah in 1332 with one lakh horsemen, says, "The whole army perished in that land of witchcraft, and not a trace was left". Other Mughal texts too talk about sorcery in Assam and its seemingly unlimited powers. Was it a true assessment?Award-winning film critic-turned-filmmaker Utpal Borpujari says the myth of Mayong needs to be studied from a scientific point of view. "Isn't it amazing that a biz (witch doctor) casts a spell and a bell-metal dish stick to the back of a man sitting upright, defying the law of gravity? I saw this with my own eyes." This former journalist has now decided to put Mayong on celluloid in a film called 'Mayong: Myth/Reality'. (http://youtu.be/T-fHPRt0LOI)
The irony is that many had traveled to Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary, famed for its one-horned rhino population, without knowing they had passed through Mayong," he says.
Incidentally, Assamese author Sushil Rajkhowa's book, 'Rinkur Rajsabha Part I', too, is inspired by the magic practiced in Mayong. Rajkhowa says there is a mine of historical texts in Mayong that has not been tapped. Borpujari too confirms this.
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