Ankia Naats (Assamese: অংকীয়া নাট) are a class of one act plays performed in Assam, India.
[1] The invention of the Ankia Naat is usually attributed to the medieval saint and social reformer Srimanta Sankardeva.
These plays were written in an artificial old medieval period poetic Assamese mixed language called Brajavali and are primarily centered on Krishna.
Playing of the traditional percussion instruments accompanied by the big cymbal by the singer and musician duo (Gayan, Bayan) in a group.
Ankia Naat were intended to be viewed by common folk in medieval Assam, majority of whom were expected to be illiterate.