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| birth_place = Rajaduar, [[North Guwahati, Assam]], India<br />
| death_date = {{d-da|19 January 1889|21 May 1850}}<br />
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| occupation = Lawyer, ICS officer<br />
| known_for = First Indian to attain the post of district magistrate in India. First person to qualify for the civil services (I.C.S) from Assam and fifth from India in 1870, <br/> First graduate of Assam<br />
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'''Ananda Ram Baruah''' ({{lang-as|আনন্দৰাম বৰুৱা}}; 1850–1889) was an Indian lawyer and scholar of [[Sanskrit]].<ref name="Deka2007">{{cite book|author=Phani Deka|title=The Great Indian Corridor in the East|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DPWGpVvBvx8C&pg=PA101|year=2007|publisher=Mittal Publications|isbn=978-81-8324-179-3|page=101}}</ref> He was both the first graduate and member of the [[Indian Civil Service]] from the state of [[Assam]]<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.mail-archive.com/assam@assamnet.org/msg08542.html | title=For the first time in Assam | accessdate=27 November 2012}}</ref><ref name="telegraphindia">{{cite web | url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040306/asp/guwahati/story_2967105.asp | title=A tale of the first torchbearer of higher education in Northeast | newspaper=The Telegraph | accessdate=27 November 2012 | author=Dipankar Banerjee}}</ref><br />
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==Literary works==<br />
===Sanskrit classics===<br />
* Bhavabhuti's Mahavircharitam, <br />
* Saraswatikanthabharana,<br />
* Namalinganusasana,<br />
* Janakiramabhashya.<br />
<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.amtron.in/htmls/Biography-of-ARB.html |title=Ananda Ram Barua |publisher=Amtron.in |accessdate=2013-06-10 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130602035710/http://amtron.in/htmls/Biography-of-ARB.html |archivedate=2013-06-02 }}</ref><br />
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===Other works===<br />
* Bhavabhuti and His Place in Sanskrit Literature (1878)<br />
* A Practical English-Sanskrit Dictionary (Part I, II and III) (1877–80)<br />
* Higher Sanskrit Grammar: Gender and Syntax (1879) <br />
* Ancient Geography of India (1880)<br />
* A Companion to the Sanskrit-reading undergraduates of the Calcutta University (1878)<br />
* Comparison of a comprehensive dictionary of all Dialects of Bengal.<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [https://www.flickr.com/photos/cyberswarup/4361480443/ Ananda Ram Baruah Flyover]'s picture<br />
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