Anundoram Borooah ( as, আনন্দৰাম বৰুৱা; 1850–1889) was an Indian lawyer and scholar of

Sanskrit Sanskrit (; attributively , ; nominally , , ) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in South Asia after its predecessor languages had diffused there from the northwest in the late ...

. 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 p ...

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.

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