Anundoram Borooah ( as, আনন্দৰাম বৰুৱা; 1850–1889) was an Indian lawyer and scholar of
Sanskrit
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.
He was both the first graduate and member of the
Indian Civil Service
The Indian Civil Service (ICS), officially known as the Imperial Civil Service, was the higher civil service of the British Empire in India during British rule in the period between 1858 and 1947.
Its members ruled over more than 300 million ...
from the state of
Assam
Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...
.
Literary works
Sanskrit classics
* Bhavabhuti's Mahavircharitam,
* Saraswatikanthabharana,
* Namalinganusasana,
* Janakiramabhashya.
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.
References
External links
Ananda Ram Baruah Flyovers picture
1850 births
1889 deaths
People from Kamrup district
Scholars from Assam
19th-century Indian linguists
Sanskrit writers
Indian Sanskrit scholars
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