The 21st September 1894.
P.S.--There can be no doubt that the Kachári of Darrang is greatly
influenced by the surrounding Assamese, though, even now, many
Kacháris, and especially women, do not speak Assamese at all. There
is an anecdote among the Kacháris showing the inconveniences of the
bilingual state. A Kachári lad married an Assamese girl, and going to
his mother-in-law's house was given food. His hospitable mother-in-law
cried to him "Khâ! Khâ!" so he bound her hand and foot. Then she
laughed, seeing that he supposed her to be talking Kachári. So she
said to him (in Kachári) "Zâ! Zâ!" on which he went away. I am afraid
the Kachári syntax is borrowed from Assamese.