Abstract

The name 'Borgeet is popularly ascribed to a special set of devotional songs composed during the late 15th and early 16th A.D.by Shrimanta Shankardeva and his disciple Shri Shri Madhabdeva, The two chief exponents of vaishnavism in Assam. In India bhakti movement started on the basis of devotion with the main objective of spreading the vaishnav religion and strengthening the tradition of worshipping different incarnations of lord Vishnu. In medieval age, music developed rapidly because the growth of music based on devotional songs which were bound up by classical ragas and its rules. The devotional music was based on the raga -raginis on that period. From the 7th to 10th centuries ,the vaishnav devotees called 'Alobaro' of southern India propagated this religion through the devotional music .The research paper encompasses the study of classical elements in borgeet, the devotional music of Assam and project a comparative study between borgeet and Indian classical music.