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Assalayana
Assalayana (Pali: Assalāyano; Sanskrit: Āśvalāyana) was a sixteen-year-old brahmin student of Sāvatthī, chosen by 500 brahmins to dispute the Buddha's teaching that purity belongs to all four castes.
Assam (অসম)
Assam (অসম) is a northeastern Indian state between the Brahmaputra and Barak valleys, gateway to the Northeast, marked by severe floods and erosion, Sixth Schedule autonomous councils, and one-horned rhino habitat.
Assam Cricket Association Stadium, Guwahati
The Assam Cricket Association Stadium, commonly called Barsapara Stadium and officially the Dr. Bhupen Hazarika Cricket Stadium, is Guwahati's 46,000-seat international cricket ground, opened in 2017.
Assam Legislative Assembly (অসম বিধানসভা)
Assam Legislative Assembly (অসম বিধানসভা), Assam's unicameral state legislature of 126 members, first met 7 April 1937 at Shillong under the Government of India Act 1935; it sits at Dispur since 1973.
Assam Power Generation Corporation
Assam Power Generation Corporation Limited (অসম শক্তি উৎপাদন নিগম লিমিটেড), or APGCL, is Assam's state-owned electricity generation company, created in 2004 when the Assam State Electricity Board was unbundled.
Assam Rifles (असम राइफल्स)
Assam Rifles (असम राइफल्स), India's oldest paramilitary force, raised 24 March 1835 as the Cachar Levy; renamed 1917; guards the India-Myanmar border under a unique dual MHA-Army control structure with 46 battalions.
Assam tea
Assam tea: black tea from the Brahmaputra valley, India, from Camellia sinensis var. assamica; noted 1823 by Robert Bruce, first sold in London 1839, malty full-bodied CTC and orthodox teas, about half of India's output.
Assam Valley Literary Award
The Assam Valley Literary Award (Asom Upotyaka Sahitya Bota) is an annual literary prize for Assamese writers, instituted in 1990 by the Williamson Magor Education Trust.
Assamese drama
Assamese drama (অসমীয়া নাটক) is the dramatic tradition of the Assamese language in Assam, India, founded by Srimanta Sankardev in the fifteenth century and performed as Bhaona.
Assamese language
Assamese (অসমীয়া, Asamiya) is an Indo-Aryan language of Assam, India, official there since 1950, descended from Magadhi Apabhramsa, with about 20 million speakers, classifier grammar, and classical-language status granted in October 2024.
Assamese literary criticism
Assamese literary criticism is the body of evaluative writing on Assamese-language literature, emerging in the late 1800s alongside the magazine Jonaki and later institutionalized at Gauhati University.
Assamese Mahabharata
The Assamese Mahabharata, also known as the Ashtadasa Mahabharata, is a 16th-century Assamese verse rendering of the Sanskrit epic composed chiefly by Rama Saraswati, court poet of the Koch kingdom.
Assamese modernist poetry
Assamese modernist poetry is the body of Assamese-language poetry that from the 1940s abandoned romantic idiom for modernism, marked by Navakanta Barua's 1951 He Aranya He Mahanagar.
Assamese novel
The Assamese novel (অসমীয়া উপন্যাস) is full-length prose fiction written in the Assamese language, a genre that began in the late nineteenth century with Padmanath Gohain Baruah's Bhanumati.
Assamese people
Assamese people (Asomiya) are the Indo-Aryan-speaking community of Assam, India, shaped by Ahom rule from 1228, colonial Bengali language conflict, migration, classical language status (2024), and the NRC citizenship debate.
Assamese Ramayana
Madhava Kandali's Ramayana, called the Saptakanda Ramayana, is a fourteenth-century Assamese verse rendering of Valmiki's Ramayana by poet Madhava Kandali, the first Ramayana in any North East Indian language.
Assamese short story
The Assamese short story (অসমীয়া চুটিগল্প) is the modern short-fiction genre of Assamese literature, born under Western influence and shaped in the magazine Jonaki from 1892, with Lakshminath Bezbarua its founding writer.
Assamese Vaishnavite literature
Assamese Vaishnavite literature (অসমীয়া বৈষ্ণৱ সাহিত্য) is the devotional poetry, drama, song, and prose produced in Assam from the late fifteenth century by Srimanta Sankardeva's Neo-Vaishnavite movement.
Assange v Swedish Prosecution Authority
Assange v Swedish Prosecution Authority [2012] UKSC 22: UK Supreme Court case on whether a European Arrest Warrant issued by Swedish prosecutor Marianne Ny was valid; a 5-2 majority held a prosecutor is a 'judicial authority' under the Extradition Act 2003.
Assaria
Assaria (Assaria), ancient coastal place in Africa Proconsularis, modern Libya, known from the Tabula Peutingeriana (Barrington 35 E2, Pleiades 344299), identified with al-Mayah near As Zaouiyah; distinct from Assyria and from Assaria, Kansas.
Assassin (game)
Assassin (game), also called Killer, is a live-action party game where players secretly eliminate assigned targets with harmless props like water pistols and Nerf blasters; a folk game spread through universities from 1966, first codified in Killer (1982).
Assassin (musician)
Assassin, now recording as Agent Sasco, is the stage name of Jeffrey Campbell, a Jamaican dancehall deejay born in 1982 whose debut album was Infiltration (2005).
Assassin & Cinderella
Assassin & Cinderella (アサシン＆シンデレラ) is an ongoing shonen web manga by Yuzo Natsuno on Square Enix's Gangan Online since 2022; a spy-assassin contract-marriage romance, English via Manga UP!, Comikey, and Square Enix print.
Assassin's Apprentice
Assassin's Apprentice (1995) by Robin Hobb, pen name of Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden, opens the Farseer Trilogy: bastard Fitz, trained as royal assassin, master of the Skill and stigmatized Wit; over 4 million trilogy copies, 22 languages.
Assassin's Creed
Assassin's Creed: Ubisoft's historical action-adventure/stealth franchise (2007–), Assassins vs Templars via the Animus; 13 mainline games, over 250 million copies sold, latest entry Shadows (2025).
Assassin's Creed (book series)
Assassin's Creed book series: licensed novels tied to Ubisoft's games, starting with Renaissance (2009) by "Oliver Bowden"; over 6 million copies sold, spanning game novelizations, original stories, and Aconyte-era global fiction.
Assassin's Creed (film)
Assassin's Creed is a 2016 science fiction action film directed by Justin Kurzel, starring Michael Fassbender as condemned killer Callum Lynch, who relives his assassin ancestors' memories.
Assassin's Creed (TV series)
Assassin's Creed is an upcoming Netflix live-action series based on Ubisoft's video game franchise, greenlit July 2025 with showrunners Roberto Patino and David Wiener, directed by Johan Renck, filming in Rome for an original story set in 64 AD.
Assassin's Creed (video game)
Assassin's Creed (2007), Ubisoft's action-adventure launching the Assassin's Creed franchise: Altair in 1191 AD Holy Land, Animus framing, parkour, social stealth, Anvil engine, Metacritic 81-82.
Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced
Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced is Ubisoft Singapore's 2026 ground-up remake of 2013's Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag on the latest Anvil engine, released July 9, 2026, selling 2 million copies in a day before studio layoffs.