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'''Kaliram Medhi''' (18 October 1880 – 24 January 1954) was a prominent linguist, writer and essayist from [[Assam]] who wrote in both the Assamese and English languages in the early part of modern [[Assamese literature]]. He was the third president of the [[Asom Sahitya Sabha]] in 1919 held at [[Barpeta district|Barpeta]].<ref>{{cite web |author=TI Trade |url=http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/details.asp?id=oct2209/City3 |title=Birth anniversary of Pandit Kaliram Medhi observed |publisher=Assamtribune.com |date=2009-10-22 |access-date=2013-05-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140104212746/http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/details.asp?id=oct2209%2FCity3 |archive-date=4 January 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vedanti.com/News/assam_sahitya_sabha_is_the_forem.htm |title=Assam Sahitya Sabha is the foremost and the most popular organization of Assam |publisher=Vedanti.com |access-date=2013-04-27 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130926194342/http://www.vedanti.com/News/assam_sahitya_sabha_is_the_forem.htm |archive-date=26 September 2013 }}</ref> He was honoured with the Rai Bahadur title in 1946. Versatile Assamese short story writer and Professor of Physics and later a lifetime associate at [[Assam Engineering College]] Surendra Nath Medhi better known by his pen name [[Saurav Kumar Chaliha]] was his son and noted Mathematician, [[Emeritus Professor]] of statistics at [[Gauhati University]] and [[Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology]] [[Jyotiprasad Medhi]] was his grandson as he was the son of his daughter Kadambari Medhi and her husband Binandi Chandra Medhi.{{CN|date=October 2021}}

==Early life==
Medhi was born on 18 October 1880 at Ramdia village near [[Hajo]] of [[Kamrup district]] to Bhukali Medhi and Sontara Medhi. After primary education at his village he did his higher education at [[Guwahati]] and City College of Calcutta.<ref name="assamtribune1">{{cite web |author=Dr. G. C. Sharma Thakur |url=http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/details.asp?id=jan2409/edit3 |title=Remembering Pundit Kaliram Medhi |publisher=Assamtribune.com |access-date=2013-05-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140104204340/http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/details.asp?id=jan2409%2Fedit3 |archive-date=4 January 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Career==
He died in [[Panbazar]], Guwahati on 24 January 1954.<ref name="assamtribune1"/> His son Surendra Nath Medhi (1930-2011) became a famous Assamese writer under the pseudonym [[Saurabh Kumar Chaliha]] and was awarded [[List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Assamese|Sahitya Academy Award in Assamese]] in 1974.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/awards/akademi%20samman_suchi.jsp|title=AKADEMI AWARDS (1955-2023)|access-date=21 May 2024|website=sahitya-akademi.gov.in}}</ref>

==Literary works==
; In Assamese
# Asomiya Bhasar Mul (অসমীয়া ভাষাৰ মূল) (1918),
# Asomiya Byakoron aru Bhasatatta (অসমীয়া ব্যকৰণ আৰু ভাষাতত্ত্ব) (1936),
# Mahapurush Sankardevar Bani (1949)
# Ankawali (Part-I) (অঙ্কাৱলী) (১ম ভাগ) (1950),<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3d-jHAAACAAJ |title=Aṅkāwalī - Kaliram Medhi - Google Books |date=2006-01-01 |access-date=2013-05-05}}</ref>
# Prahlad charitra (প্ৰহ্লাদ চৰিত্ৰ) (1913) and more.

; In English
# The Kalitas,
# Brajavali Literature of Assam,
# Philosophic Aspects of the Assamese Brajavali Literature,
# Origin of Assamese Drama,
# Studies in the Vaishnav Literature and Culture of Assam.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HeB83Pc8hCAC |title=Studies in the Vaiṣṇava Literature & Culture of Assam - Kaliram Medhi - Google Books |date=1995-01-01 |access-date=2013-05-05|last1=Medhi |first1=Kaliram }}</ref>
# Assamese Grammar and Origin of the Assamese Language.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.assam.org/node/2331 |title=A Selected Bibliography on Assamese Language and Literature | Assam Portal |publisher=Assam.org |date= |access-date=2013-05-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130619110931/http://www.assam.org/node/2331 |archive-date=19 June 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref>

==See also==
* [[History of Assamese literature]]
* [[List of Assamese writers with their pen names]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=AsgvAAAAIAAJ Assamese Grammar and Origin of the Assamese Language], (1988) a book by Kaliram Medhi.
* [https://www.panoramio.com/photo/60179731 A statue of Kaliram Medhi] at Ambari, Guwahati, Assam.
* [https://openlibrary.org/search?sort=new&author_key=OL875492A Books by Kaliram Medhi] at Open Library website.
* [http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n81-60028 Books] at Worldcat.org.

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[[Category:City College, Kolkata alumni]]
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[[Category:20th-century Indian essayists]]
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[[Category:Writers from Guwahati]]
[[Category:Essayists from British India]]

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