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| Born | (1915-04-22)April 22, 1915 |
| Died | April 9, 1977(1977-04-09) (aged 61) Assam, India |
| Occupation(s) | Author,Politician |
Hem Barua was a prominentAssamese poet and politician fromAssam.[1]
Born on 22 April 1915, atTezpur,[2] Hem Barua obtained his M.A. degree fromCalcutta University in 1938 and joined the J.B. College,Jorhat, in 1941 as lecturer in Assamese and English. He left it next year during theQuit India Movement and was imprisoned in 1943. On his release, he joined the B. Borooah College,Guwahati, and later became its Principal.[3]
Hem Barua was the author of several books. He became the President of theAsam Sahitya Sabha in its annual session held atDhubri in 1972 and was regarded as one of the pioneers of modern literary movement in Assam.[4]
Hem Barua left the Congress in 1948 and became a member of the Socialist party. Later he was elected as the National Executive of thePraja Socialist Party. He was elected to theLok Sabha fromGauhati in 1957, 1962 and 1967 and fromMangaldoi in 1967. He was the member of theLok Sabha till December 1970.[1]
Some more books written by Hem Barua are,[5]
And the most important of them all, a book on all the ethnic communities and the tribes of North-East India is,_
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