Anundoram Borooah Explained

Anundoram Borooah
Birth Date:	^[1]
Birth Place:	Rajaduar, North Guwahati, Assam, India
Occupation:	Lawyer, ICS officer
Known For:	First Indian to attain the post of district magistrate in India. First person to qualify for the civil services (I.C.S) from Assam and fifth from India in 1870, First graduate of Assam
Alma Mater:	Presidency College, Calcutta
Years Active:	1864 to 1869

Anundoram Borooah (1850–1889) was an Indian lawyer and scholar of Sanskrit.^[2] He was both the first graduate and the first Indian Civil Service officer from the state of Assam.^{[3] [4]} He was the first Indian to attain the post of district magistrate in India.

Literary works

Sanskrit classics

• Bhavabhuti's Mahavircharitam,
• Saraswatikanthabharana,
• Namalinganusasana,
• Janakiramabhashya.

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Other works

• Bhavabhuti and His Place in Sanskrit Literature (1878)
• A Practical English-Sanskrit Dictionary (Part I, II and III) (1877–80)
• Higher Sanskrit Grammar: Gender and Syntax (1879)
• Ancient Geography of India (1880)
• A Companion to the Sanskrit-reading undergraduates of the Calcutta University (1878)
• Comparison of a comprehensive dictionary of all Dialects of Bengal.

External links

• Ananda Ram Baruah Flyover's picture

Notes and References

1. Web site: Anundoram Borooah Award Scheme. Assam Government. 21 May 2019.
2. Book: Phani Deka. The Great Indian Corridor in the East. 2007. Mittal Publications. 978-81-8324-179-3. 101.
3. Web site: For the first time in Assam . 27 November 2012.
4. Web site: A tale of the first torchbearer of higher education in Northeast . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304071736/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040306/asp/guwahati/story_2967105.asp . dead . 4 March 2016 . The Telegraph . 27 November 2012 . Dipankar Banerjee.
5. Web site: Ananda Ram Barua . Amtron.in . 2013-06-10 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130602035710/http://amtron.in/htmls/Biography-of-ARB.html . 2013-06-02 .