Chandradhar Barua (15 October 1874 – 26 October 1961) was a writer, poet, dramatist and lyricist from Assam of Jonaki Era, the age of romanticism of Assamese literature. Barua was born at Dergaon, Golaghat, Assam on 15 October 1878. He was second president of the Asam Sahitya Sabha in 1918 held at Goalpara. He was the founder secretary of Asam Sahitya Sabha Patrika, an official journal of the Asam Sahitya Sabha established at 1927 and held in that position till 1936. He also represented India at the Round Table Conference held at London in 1930.

Literary works

Poetry Collections

Ranjan, Bidyut Bikash, Kamrup Jiyori, Muktaboli.

Chandradhar Barua

Novel

Shanti.

Chandradhar Barua

Dramas

Meghnad Badh, Bhagya Porikha, Mughal Bijoy, Ahom Sandhya etc.

Chandradhar Barua

See also

Assamese literature

History of Assamese literature

List of Asam Sahitya Sabha presidents

List of Assamese writers with their pen names

References

External links

Read original writings of Chandradhar Barua at Assamese wikisource

Novelists from Assam

Assamese-language poets

Asom Sahitya Sabha Presidents

1870s births

1961 deaths

20th-century Indian novelists

Indian male dramatists and playwrights

Indian male novelists

Indian male poets

Writers from British India

People from Dergaon

20th-century Indian poets

20th-century Indian dramatists and playwrights

Poets from Assam

Dramatists and playwrights from Assam

20th-century Indian male writers