Madrasas in Assam is a pioneering and well-researched work on a little known and at the same time controversial issue, which has gained importantance in the public domain, after the bomb blast on October 2, 2014 in Bardwan District of West Bengal and subsequent arrest of a number of person in Barpeta District of Assam. The private madrasas are the main thrust of this book. It reveals why this variety of madrasas, plagued by backwardness of all kinds, is the only destination of the children of poor Muslims for education and how these Islamic seminaries are at the crossroads of tradition and modernity.