Barua, the Glossary
Barua (also spelt as Baroa, Baruah, Barooa, Barooah, Baroova, Baroowa, Borooah, Baruva, Baruwa, Borooah, Borua, Boruah) is a common Assamese surname shared by the Assamese communities much like Aroras of Punjab.[1]
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89 relations: Academician, Ahom Army, Ahom kingdom, Ahom language, Ahom people, Alumni, Amulya Barua, Ananda Chandra Barua, Anundoram Borooah, Arjuna Award, Arora, Asam Sahitya Sabha, Asian Games, Assam, Assam Legislative Assembly, Assamese Brahmin, Assamese language, Assamese literature, Assamese people, Assamese poetry, Barua people, Bhogeswar Baruah, Bhubanmohan Baruah, Binanda Chandra Barua, Birinchi Kumar Barua, Bodo–Kachari people, Buranji, Chandradhar Barua, Chutia Kingdom, Chutia people, Cinema of India, Colonial Assam, D. K. Barooah, Debo Prasad Barooah, Dhaniram Baruah, Education, Folk music, Folklore studies, Gauhati University, Golaghat, Gunabhiram Barua, Hem Barua, Hem Barua (Tyagbir), Hemchandra Barua, Humanism, Indian Civil Service, Indian independence movement, Indian National Congress, Jagannath Barooah, Jagannath Barooah College, ... Expand index (39 more) »
- Assamese-language surnames
Academician
An academician is a full member of an artistic, literary, engineering, or scientific academy.
Ahom Army
The Ahom Army consisted of cavalry, infantry as well as naval units based on the Paik system militia of the Ahom kingdom (1228–1824). Barua and Ahom Army are Ahom kingdom.
Ahom kingdom
The Ahom kingdom or the Kingdom of Assam (1228–1826) was a late medieval kingdom in the Brahmaputra Valley (present-day Assam) that retained its independence for nearly 600 years despite encountering Mughal expansion in Northeast India.
Ahom language
The Ahom language or Tai-Ahom language is a dormant, Southwestern Tai language formerly spoken by the Ahom people.
Ahom people
The Ahom (Ahom: 𑜒𑜑𑜪𑜨) (Pron) or Tai-Ahom is an ethnic group from the Indian states of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. Barua and Ahom people are Ahom kingdom.
Alumni
Alumni (alumnus or alumna) are former students or graduates of a school, college, or university.
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Amulya Barua
Amulya Barua was a pioneer of modern Assamese poetry.
Ananda Chandra Barua
Ananda Chandra Barua (1907–1983) was a writer, poet, playwright, translator, journalist and actor from Assam.
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Anundoram Borooah
Anundoram Borooah (1850–1889) was an Indian lawyer and scholar of Sanskrit.
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Arjuna Award
The Arjuna Award, officially known as Arjuna Awards given for Outstanding Performance in Sports and Games, is the second-highest sporting honour of India, the highest being the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award.
Arora
Arora is a Punjabi caste, comprising both Hindus and Sikhs.
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Asam Sahitya Sabha
The Asam Sahitya Sabha) is a non Government, non profit, literary organisation of Assam. It was founded in December 1917 in Assam, India to promote the culture of Assam and Assamese literature. A branch of the organisation named Singapore Sahitya Sabha was launched in Singapore on 28 July 2019.
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Asian Games
The Asian Games, also known as Asiad, is a continental multi-sport event held every fourth year among athletes from all over Asia.
Assam
Assam is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys.
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Assam Legislative Assembly
The Assam Legislative Assembly is the unicameral legislature of the Indian state of Assam.
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Assamese Brahmin
Assamese Brahmins are the Brahmin community present in the Assamese society.
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Assamese language
Assamese or Asamiya (অসমীয়া) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken mainly in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam, where it is an official language.
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Assamese literature
Assamese literature is the entire corpus of poetry, novels, short stories, plays, documents and other writings in the Assamese language.
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Assamese people
The Assamese people are a socio-ethnic linguistic identity that has been described at various times as nationalistic or micro-nationalistic.
Assamese poetry
Assamese poetry is poetry in Assamese language.
Barua people
Barua (Boṛua; မရမာကြီး) is a Bengali-speaking Indo-Aryan ethnic group native to Chittagong Division in Bangladesh and Rakhine State in Myanmar, where they are known as the Maramagyi or Maramagri or particularly the Magh Barua.
Bhogeswar Baruah
Bhogeswar Baruah (born 3 September 1940) is an Indian former-athlete and coach.
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Bhubanmohan Baruah
Bhubanmohan Baruah (1914 - 1998) was a novelist, short story writer from Assam.
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Binanda Chandra Barua
Binanda Chandra Barua (1901 - 1994) was a noted Indian writer and poet of Assamese literature from Teok, Assam.
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Birinchi Kumar Barua
Birinchi Kumar Barua (16 October 1908 in Puranigudam, Nagaon, Assam, India – 30 March 1964) was a folklorist, scholar, novelist, playwright, historian, linguist, educationist, administrator and eminent 20th century littérateur of Assam, with both scholarly and creative pursuits.
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Bodo–Kachari people
Bodo–Kacharis (also Kacharis or Bodos) is a name used by anthropologist and linguists to define a collection of ethnic groups living predominantly in the Northeast Indian states of Assam, Tripura, and Meghalaya.
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Buranji
Buranjis (Ahom language: ancient writings) are a class of historical chronicles and manuscripts associated with the Ahom kingdom. Barua and Buranji are Ahom kingdom.
Chandradhar Barua
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.
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Chutia Kingdom
The Chutia Kingdom (also Sadiya or Chutiya) was a late medieval state that developed around Sadiya in present Assam and adjoining areas in Arunachal Pradesh.
Chutia people
The Chutia people (Pron: or Sutia) are an ethnic group that are native to Assam and historically associated with the Chutia kingdom.
Cinema of India
The Cinema of India, consisting of motion pictures made by the Indian film industry, has had a large effect on world cinema since the second half of the 20th century.
Colonial Assam
Colonial Assam (1826–1947) refers to the period in the history of Assam between the signing of the Treaty of Yandabo and the Independence of India when Assam was under British colonial rule.
D. K. Barooah
Dev Kant Barooah (22 February 1914 – 28 January 1996) was an Indian politician from Assam, who served as the 83rd President of the Indian National Congress during the Emergency from 1975 to 1978 and the seventh Governor of Bihar from 1971 to 1973.
Debo Prasad Barooah
Debo Prasad Barooah was an Indian academician, author, historian and the former Vice-Chancellor (the Chief Executive) of Gauhati University.
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Dhaniram Baruah
Dhaniram Baruah is an Indian heart surgeon from Assam, known for his work in the field of xenotransplantation.
Education
Education is the transmission of knowledge, skills, and character traits and manifests in various forms.
Folk music
Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.
Folklore studies
Folklore studies (less often known as folkloristics, and occasionally tradition studies or folk life studies in the United Kingdom) is the branch of anthropology devoted to the study of folklore.
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Gauhati University
Gauhati University also known as GU, is a collegiate public state university located in Guwahati, Assam, India.
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Golaghat
Golaghat (Gʊlaɡʱat) one of the largest subdivisions of the Indian state of Assam, later elevated to the position of a full–fledged district headquarter on 5 October 1987, is a city and a municipality and the seat of administrative operations of Golaghat district, besides being a twin city to Jorhat which is about 55 km away.
Gunabhiram Barua
Gunabhiram Barua (1834-1894) was a nineteenth century Indian intellectual from Assam who ushered in new ideas of social reform in the early years of colonial rule in Assam.
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Hem Barua
Hem Barua was a prominent Assamese poet and politician from Assam.
Hem Barua (Tyagbir)
Hem Barua (25 April 1893 – 11 August 1945) was an Indian independence activist, social worker and writer from Sonitpur district of the Indian state of Assam.
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Hemchandra Barua
Hemchandra Barua (Hêmsôndrô Bôruwa), also known as Hem Barua was a prominent writer, social reformer of Assamese of the 19th century.
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Humanism
Humanism is a philosophical stance that emphasizes the individual and social potential, and agency of human beings, whom it considers the starting point for serious moral and philosophical inquiry.
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.
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Indian independence movement
The Indian Independence Movement was a series of historic events in South Asia with the ultimate aim of ending British colonial rule.
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Indian National Congress
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Jagannath Barooah
Jagannath Barooah (1851–1907) is an Indian scholar, tea planter, philanthropist from Jorhat, Assam.
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Jagannath Barooah College
Jagannath Barooah University (popularly known as J.B. University and formerly J.B. College) is a university located in Jorhat, Assam, India.
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Jahnu Barua
Jahnu Barua (born 1952) is an Indian film director.
Jnanadabhiram Barua
Jnanadabhiram Barua (1880-1955) was a notable Indian Assamese language writer, dramatist, translator, and barrister from Assam.
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Joi Barua
Joi Barua is an Indian singer and music composer.
Kalita (caste)
Kalita is an ethnic group or a caste of Assamese Hindus belonging to the state of Assam in North East India. Barua and Kalita (caste) are Assamese-language surnames.
Kanaklal Barua
Kanaklal Barua (1872–1940) was a prominent writer, essayist, historian and politician from Assam who wrote mainly in the English language.
Kanaklata Barua
Kanaklata Barua (22 December 1924 – 20 September 1942), also called Birbala and Shaheed (martyr), was an Indian independence activist and AISF leader who was shot dead by the Indian Imperial Police of the British Raj while leading a procession bearing the National Flag during the Quit India Movement of 1942.
Lakhimpur district
Lakhimpur district is an administrative district in the state of Assam in India.
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Lakshminath Bezbarua
Lakshminath Bezbarua (14 November 1864 - March 26,1938) was an Assamese poet, novelist and playwright of modern Assamese literature.
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Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of language.
List of Indian independence activists
The Indian independence movement consisted of efforts by individuals and organizations from a wide spectrum of society to obtain political independence from the British, French and Portuguese rule through the use of many methods.
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Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
A Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha (abbreviated: MP) is the representative of a legislative constituency in the Lok Sabha; the lower house of the Parliament of India.
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Moamoria
The Moamoria (also Matak) were the adherents of the egalitarian, proselytizing Mayamara Satra of 18th-century Assam, who initiated the Moamoria rebellion against the Ahom kingdom in the 18th century. Barua and Moamoria are Ahom kingdom.
Moamoria rebellion
The Moamoria rebellion (1769–1805) was an 18th-century uprising in Ahom kingdom of present-day Assam that began as power struggle between the Moamorias (Mataks), the adherents of the Mayamara Sattra, and the Ahom kings. Barua and Moamoria rebellion are Ahom kingdom.
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Moran people
The Moran are an ethnic group found in the northeast Indian states of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh.
Music of Assam
The music of Assam consists various genres of folk and modern music, drawing its artistic basis from the history of Assam, from Assamese culture and its ancient traditions.
Nabakanta Barua
Nabakanta Barua (29 December 1926 – 14 July 2002) was a prominent Assamese novelist and poet.
Padmanath Gohain Baruah
Padmanath Gohain Baruah (1871–1946) was the first president of Asam Sahitya Sabha and a prominent name in the early part of modern Assamese literature.
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Paik system
The Paik system was a type of corvee labour system on which the economy of the Ahom kingdom of medieval Assam depended. Barua and Paik system are Ahom kingdom.
Parvati Prasad Baruva
Parvati Prasad Baruva (1904–1964) was a noted poet, lyricist, and dramatist: an icon of Assamese literature and the culture of Assam.
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Pradan Baruah
Pradan Baruah is an Indian politician who is member of Parliament and elected to 16th Lok Sabha from Lakhimpur seat since November 2016.
Pramathesh Barua
Pramathesh Chandra Barua (24 October 1903 – 29 November 1951) was an Indian actor, director, and screenwriter of Indian films in the pre-independence era, born in Gauripur, Dhubri, Assam.
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Pratima Barua Pandey
Pratima Barua Pandey (3 October 1934 – 27 December 2002) was an Indian folk singer from the royal family of Gauripur in Western Assam's Dhubri district.
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Punjab
Punjab (also romanised as Panjāb or Panj-Āb), also known as the Land of the Five Rivers, is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia. It is specifically located in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising areas of modern-day eastern-Pakistan and northwestern-India.
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Radha Govinda Baruah
Radha Govinda Baruah (17 October 1900 – 15 July 1977) was the founder of The Assam Tribune, a group of news papers.
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Reformism (historical)
Reformism is a type of social movement that aims to bring a social or also a political system closer to the community's ideal.
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Rituparna Baruah
Rituparna Baruah is a Bharatiya Janata Party politician from Assam.
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Rudra Baruah
Luit Konwar Rudra Baruah was one of the foremost music pioneers of Assam.
Sanskrit
Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.
Scottish Church College
Scottish Church College is a college affiliated by Calcutta University, India.
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Siva Prasad Barooah
Siva Prasad Barooah (1880–1938) was a renowned planter, philanthropist, politician, and humanist from Assam.
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Sonitpur district
Sonitpur district is an administrative district in the state of Assam in India.
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Sonowal Kachari people
The Sonowal Kachari are one of the indigenous peoples of the state of Assam in Northeast India.
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Sutanphaa
Sutanphaa also Siva Singha (– 14 December 1744) was the 31st king of Assam from the Ahom dynasty who reigned from (1714 to 1744 A.D.) He was the eldest son of King Rudra Singha. Barua and Sutanphaa are Ahom kingdom.
The Analyst
The Analyst (subtitled A Discourse Addressed to an Infidel Mathematician: Wherein It Is Examined Whether the Object, Principles, and Inferences of the Modern Analysis Are More Distinctly Conceived, or More Evidently Deduced, Than Religious Mysteries and Points of Faith) is a book by George Berkeley.
The Assam Tribune
The Assam Tribune is an Indian English daily newspaper published from Guwahati and Dibrugarh, Assam.
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The Comedy of Errors
The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare's early plays.
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Thengal Kachari people
The Thengal Kachari people are an indigenous ethnic group of Assam, India.
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University of Calcutta
The University of Calcutta (informally known as Calcutta University; CU) is a public state university located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor.
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See also
Assamese-language surnames
- Barua
- Bharali
- Bhattacharya (surname)
- Bora (surname)
- Borborua
- Bordoloi
- Borgohain
- Borpatragohain
- Borphukan
- Borthakur
- Burhagohain
- Chakraborty
- Das (surname)
- Dutta
- Gogoi
- Goswami
- Hazarika
- Kalita (caste)
- Neog
- Phukan
- Saikia
- Sharma
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barua
Also known as Barooah, Baruah.
, Jahnu Barua, Jnanadabhiram Barua, Joi Barua, Kalita (caste), Kanaklal Barua, Kanaklata Barua, Lakhimpur district, Lakshminath Bezbarua, Linguistics, List of Indian independence activists, Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha, Moamoria, Moamoria rebellion, Moran people, Music of Assam, Nabakanta Barua, Padmanath Gohain Baruah, Paik system, Parvati Prasad Baruva, Pradan Baruah, Pramathesh Barua, Pratima Barua Pandey, Punjab, Radha Govinda Baruah, Reformism (historical), Rituparna Baruah, Rudra Baruah, Sanskrit, Scottish Church College, Siva Prasad Barooah, Sonitpur district, Sonowal Kachari people, Sutanphaa, The Analyst, The Assam Tribune, The Comedy of Errors, Thengal Kachari people, University of Calcutta, William Shakespeare.