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| birth_date = {{birth year|1903}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Kokrajhar]], [[Dhubri District]], [[Assam]], India<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|1990|09|06|1903|df=y}}<br />
| death_place = [[Kokrajhar]], Assam, India<br />
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| occupation = Poet<br>Playwright<br />
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| known for = [[Bodo language|Bodo]] literature<br />
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| awards = [[Padma Shri]]<br />
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'''Madaram Brahma''' was an Indian poet and dramatist, who wrote in the [[Bodo language]],<ref name="An Introduction to the Boro Language">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v6kbnrumEWkC&q=Madaram+Brahma&pg=PA4 | title=An Introduction to the Boro Language | publisher=Mittal Publications | date=2005 | access-date=31 August 2015 | author=Phukana Candra Basumatārī | pages=99 | isbn=9788183240857}}</ref> a [[Sino-Tibetan language]] spoken by the [[Bodo people]].<ref name="Indigenous Writers of India: North-East India">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FWCiWWeRCU4C&q=Madaram+Brahma&pg=PA50 | title=Indigenous Writers of India: North-East India | publisher=Concept Publishing Company | author=Ramanika Gupta | year=2006 | pages=227 | isbn=9788180693007}}</ref><ref name="Madaram Brahma (1903-1990)">{{cite web | url=https://fpfbfb.wordpress.com/category/madaram-brahma/ | title=Madaram Brahma (1903-1990) | publisher=Fpfbfb | date=2015 | access-date=31 August 2015}}</ref> Born in a [[Bodo people|Bodo family]] in 1903 at Kokrajhar in Dundhunikhata (present day [[Dhubri District]]) of the Northeast Indian state of [[Assam]], he passed the matriculation from the local Government High School in Dhubri.<ref name="Madaram Brahma (1903-1990)" /> His career started as a teacher and by 1932, he became the Headmaster of the Harisingha High School, Darang. In 1945 he joined the local administration, eventually becoming the first person of Bodo ethnicity to become a Block Development Officer.<ref name="Madaram Brahma (1903-1990)" /><br />
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Brahma wrote several poems, songs including hymns<ref name="An Introduction to the Boro Language" /> and plays which started with ''Boroni Gudi Sibsa Arw Aroj'', a book of hymns and prayers written in Bodo language.<ref name="Indigenous Writers of India: North-East India" /> His other works included ''Khonthai Methai'' (Poems and Lyrics–1923), ''Boroni Gudi Sipsa Arw Aroj'' (Bodo Hymn and Prayer Songs–1926), Raimali (Drama–1926), ''Dimapur Nwgwr Bainai'' (The fall of Dimapur, drama), ''Sadang Bairagi'' (Sadang, The Sanyasi, drama), ''Rupesri Raithai Khantai'' (Rupesri- Poems and Prose–1988) and ''Phangseao Bibar Barnwi'' (Two Flowers in the Branch).<ref name="Indigenous Writers of India: North-East India" /><ref name="Madaram Brahma (1903-1990)" /> Some of his works are prescribed texts for school curriculum<ref name="Bodo Paper I">{{cite web | url=http://apsc.nic.in/main-bodo.pdf | title=Bodo Paper I | publisher=APSC | date=2015 | access-date=31 August 2015}}</ref> and civil services examination.<ref name="Foresight IAS">{{cite web | url=http://foresightias.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Bodo_Mains_Syllabus.pdf | title=Foresight IAS | publisher=Foresight | date=2015 | access-date=31 August 2015}}</ref> The [[Government of India]] awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of [[Padma Shri]] in 1988.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2015 |access-date=21 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 October 2015 }}</ref><br />
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Madaram Brahma died, aged 87, on 6 September 1990, at Rupnath Brahma Civil Hospital in his native place.<ref name="Indigenous Writers of India: North-East India" /> A local school, ''Padmasri Madaram Brahma Mes School'' is named after him.<ref name="Padmasri Madaram Brahma Mes School">{{cite web | url=http://www.icbse.com/schools/padmasri-madaram-brahma-mes/18240302504 | title=Padmasri Madaram Brahma Mes School | publisher=ICBSE | date=2015 | access-date=31 August 2015}}</ref><br />
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