Education
Barua completed his college education from Presidency College, Calcutta and became an assistant commissioner under the colonial government.
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Barua completed his college education from Presidency College, Calcutta and became an assistant commissioner under the colonial government.
He was deeply influenced by the progressive intellectual currents of the Bengal Renaissance. All his life he propagated its liberal ideas through his writings. He remained in the job for the next 30 years.
Lara Bondhu was also named as the first children"s magazine in Assamese literature.
Gunabhiram Barua was a cousin of Anandaram Dhekial Phukan. Hindi film actor Sharmila Tagore is the granddaughter of Gunabhiram"s son Jnanadabhiram on her maternal side.