‘Kanhibunor Malita’ (Ballad of a Grassland), a novel written by Rudrani Sharma, is a documentation of timeless period which is connected with the existence of a race. This existence has been very much active by some catalysts like social, political, economical, cultural and intellectual for long-long period in Assam and it had been depicted in this novel. Bangladeshi refugees are coming in this land since partition and consequently Assamese people are facing existential crisis and on the other hand Bangladeshi Muslims are struggling for their life. And this is the theme of this novel. The central plot of this novel is the life of Bangladeshi Muslims and the author depicted it with utmost consistency; therefore, this novel had been able to take a mature form with the help of its subject, theme and style. Simultaneously this novel had established the relation between man and soil. Land acquisition by immigrated people and the development of close relation with the land had taken the centre stage and this context had enriched the topic and theme of this novel.

Partition,migration, indigenous people, historical conscience, identity, Assam Movement, existence.