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Barua

Assamese surname

For the ethnic group, see Barua people.

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. They mostly follow Hinduism.

Barua surname is also used by the Magh people of Chittagong, Myanmar and West Bengal also known as Maramagri. They follow Theravada Buddhism and are a different community from Assamese Hindu Baruas.

In Assam Valley

History

Originally, the Barua surname was used as a military rank in the Sutiya kingdom held by individuals from the Buruk clan.^[4] The historical examples, such as Borhuloi Barua, Gajraj Barua, Manik Chandra Barua and Kasitora Barua were Sutiya officials.^[5]^[6]

During the Ahom reign, Barua represented by the Tai word Phūu-Kāe^[7](𑜇𑜥;𑜀𑜦𑜧; or literally: "Mediator or person who solves problems" in Ahom language), meant a superintending officer of the Paik sy

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Pramathesh Barua

Pramathesh Barua (India, 1903), the son of a royal family of Assam, studied in Kolkata and, after a stint in Europe, abandoned politics and turned to acting and directing movies. His first role was in Debaki Bose's silent movie Panchashar (1929). He set up his own studio in Kolkata, and Debaki Bose directed its first movie, Aparadhi/ The Culprit (1931), a landmark work of Bengali cinema. Sushit Mazumde directed Ekada (1932), which Barua produced and scripted. Following the commercial failure of first talkie, Bengal 1983 (1932), Barua joined New Theatres. He directed their first talkie, Rooplekha (1934), which also featured a flashback. He pioneered socially-aware cinema with Devdas (1935), based on Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay's popular novel "Devdas", first made in Bengali and then remade in Hindi in 1936. He also directed Manzil (1936), photographed by Bimal Roy, Mukti (1937), Adhikar (1938), the comedy Rajat Jayanti (1939), Rajat Jayanti (1939), Zindagi (1940), Shapmukti (1940), Uttrayan (1941), etc. He died in 1951.

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Nabakanta Barua

Nabakanta Barua is well known Assamese poet with many collection of poems including Ratnaakar, Jati Aaru Keitaamaan Sketch, Mur Aaroo Prithiveer, Dolongot Taamighoraa, Selected Poems (in English). He is a recipient of Sahitya Academy award, 1975, Soviet Land Nehru award, Kabir Samman, Assam Valley Literary award etc.

He started his education at a nearby school, then joined govt Mojolia school. In 1933 he was admitted to Nagaon govt boys in class 3, from there he completed his matriculation in 1941. After that he got admitted to Cotton College, but he lost two years due to illness. In 1943, he went to Shantinikaton (West Bengal). In 1947 he completed his B.A. with English honors and in 1953 M. A. from Aligarh Muslim University.

He worked in Uttar Pradesh at Sokohabad at A.K collage , but the same year was transferred to Jorhat's Jagannath Barooah College. In 1954 he joined Cotton College and worked there until 1964. From 1964 to 1967 he worked at Assam Madhyamik Shiksha Parisod as an officer of English education . He again joined Cotton College, retiring