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| birth_place = [[Assam]], [[India]]
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'''Kanaklal Barua''' (1872-1940) was a prominent writer, essayist, historian and politician from [[Assam]] who wrote mainly in the [[English language]]. He was one of the literary stalwarts of the Jonaki Era, the age of romanticism of [[Assamese literature]].<ref name="Datta1988">{{cite book |first=Amaresh |last=Datta |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zB4n3MVozbUC&pg=PA1870 |title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Devraj to Jyoti |publisher=Sahitya Akademi |year=1988 |isbn=978-81-260-1194-0 |access-date=2013-05-10}}</ref> He was the president of the [[Asam Sahitya Sabha]] in 1924 held at [[Dibrugarh district]], Assam.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vedanti.com/News/assam_sahitya_sabha_is_the_forem.htm |title=Asam Sahitya Sabha is the foremost and the most popular organization of Assam |publisher=Vedanti.com |access-date=2013-05-11 |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=2013-09-26 }}</ref> In 1929 he was elected to [[Assam Legislative Assembly]]. He also served as a member of the Viceroy's Executive Council. He was the founder president of the [[Kamarupa Anusandhan Samiti]] (Assam Research Society).<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.sentinelassam.com/ghy_city/story.php?sec=1&subsec=0&id=114564&dtP=2012-11-17&ppr=1 |title=The Sentinel |publisher=Sentinelassam.com |access-date=2013-05-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924100603/http://www.sentinelassam.com/ghy_city/story.php?sec=1&subsec=0&id=114564&dtP=2012-11-17&ppr=1 |archive-date=24 September 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was rewarded with the "Raibahadur" title by the British Government.

==Works==
His books include ''Studies in the Early History of Assam'', ''An Early History of Kamarupa From the Earliest Time to the Sixteenth Century''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.assam.org/node/2370 |title=A Bibliography on the History of Assam | Assam Portal |publisher=Assam.org |access-date=2013-05-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141225144824/http://www.assam.org/node/2370 |archive-date=25 December 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and ''Manual of Co-operative Societies in Assam''. He was also an editor of the ''[[Jonaki (magazine)|Jonaki]]'' magazine for some months.<ref name="Datta1988" />

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

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=qOqEsStmcQQC&pg=PA168&lpg=PA168 Among the Luminaries in Assam: A Study of Assamese Biography], by Anjali Sarma.
* Few historical article's by Kalaklal Barua at [https://books.google.com/books?id=0PpMFndsXKQC&lpg=PR17 Discovery of North-East India: Geography, History, Culture ..., Volume 3] edited by Suresh Kant Sharma, Usha Sharma.
* [http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/59419718.jpg A statue of Kalaklal Barua]
* [http://orlabs.oclc.org/identities/lccn-n89-104652 Kalaklal Barua at OLCC WorldCat Identities]

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[[Category:Asom Sahitya Sabha Presidents]]
[[Category:Assam politicians]]
[[Category:1872 births]]
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[[Category:20th-century Indian historians]]

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