Kanak lal barua biography template
Kanaklal Barua (–) was a prominent writer, essayist, historian and politician from Assam who wrote mainly in the English language.!
Kanaklata Baruah was an eminent freedom fighter of Assam.
Kanaklata Barua
Indian freedom fighter
Kanaklata Barua (22 December 1924 – 20 September 1942), also called Birangana and Shaheed (martyr), was an Indian independence activist who was shot dead by the Indian Imperial Police of the British Raj while leading a procession bearing the National Flag during the Quit India Movement of 1942.[1]
Early life
She was born on 22 December 1924.
Barua was born in the Borangabari village of the undivided Darrang district of Assam as the daughter of Krishna Kanta and Karneshwari Barua. Her grandfather Ghana Kanta Barua was a famous hunter in Darrang. Her ancestors were from the Dolakasharia Barua kingdom (Chutia vassal chiefdom) of the erstwhile Ahom state who relinquished the Dolakasharia title and continued retaining the Barua title.
Her mother died when she was only five and her father, who remarried, died when she reached thirteen. She went to school till class three but then dropped out to take care of her younger sibli
