Kamrupi Lokgeet

    "Kamrupi Lokgeet" is popular form of folk music that expresses thoughts and emotion of the common people of Kamrup.These songs are sung from time immemorial by various people of erstwhile undivided Kamrup district. Beside this various forms of songs linking the day to day activities are also popular like biyar geet (marriage songs), now khelar (boat race) geet, maha-kheda (mosquito drive out) geet, child's play geet, boroshibowa (fishing) geet, nisukoni (lallabye) geet and various forms of Domahi (harvest cultivation festivity) geet. This folk songs reflects every aspect of life of common people of  Kamrup.
Considerably influenced by a class of Vaishnava songs of the highest sophistication and refinement, both literary and musical, the Kamrupi Lokgeet's, although sung to the humble dolara and the dagar (or khanjari) demonstrate great intricacy. It is known for richness of musical modes.1

Sources

1. Dutta Goswami, Praphulla (1974), Folks-Songs of Assam in Sangeet Natak, Issues 31-34, Sangeet Natak Akademi, p.64 Also clothed in a religious garb are a large number of songs current in the Kamrup district which are rather popular and known as Kamrupi Loka-geet. What is remarkable about this songs is not their religion but the richness of their musical modes. Considerably influenced by a class of Vaishnava songs of the highest sophistication and refinement, both literary and musical, the Kamrupi Lokgeets, although sung to the humble dotara and the dagar (or Khanjari) demonstrates great intricacy  

Etymology of Assam

Western Assam was known as Pragjyotisha in Mahabharata and other Sanskrit epics. Kamarupa (Western Assam) and Davaka (Central Assam) in the 1st millennium.
The academic consensus is that the current name is based on the English word Assam by which the British  referred to the tract covered by the Brahmaputra valley and its adjoining areas. The named Assam applied to most of North East India including Brahmaputra and Barak river valleys, hills of Arunachal Pradesh (NEFA), Mizoram (Lushai Hills), Nagaland (Naga Hills) and Meghalaya (Khasi Hills, Jaintia Hills and Garo Hills.  

As evidenced from Satyendra Nath Sarma's quote that Assam (Eastern Assam) was known as Asama after 15th century till arrival of British. One of many theory states that Assam name derived from Sanskrit word "Asama" meaning unequal as referring to its geology which is equal mix of river valleys and hills, though several other theories also exists. The British province after 1838 and the Indian state after 1947 came to be known as Assam.