Anundoram Borooah

{{Short description|Indian Sanskrit scholar (1850–1889)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}}

{{Use Indian English|date=July 2018}}

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| name = Anandaram Boruah

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| caption = Anandaram Baruah

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| birth_date = {{birth-date|21 May 1850}}{{cite web | url=http://arbas.assam.gov.in/arb.html | title=Anundoram Borooah Award Scheme| publisher=Assam Government| accessdate=21 May 2019}}

| birth_place = Rajaduar, North Guwahati, Assam, India

| death_date = {{death-date and age|19 January 1889|21 May 1850}}

| death_place = Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India

| occupation = Lawyer, ICS officer

| known_for = First Indian to attain the post of district magistrate in India. First person to qualify for the civil services (I.C.S) from Assam and fifth from India in 1870,
First graduate of Assam

| alma_mater = Presidency College, calcutta

| years_active = 1864 to 1869

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Anandaram Boruah (1850–1889) was an Indian lawyer and scholar of Sanskrit.{{cite book|author=Phani Deka|title=The Great Indian Corridor in the East|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DPWGpVvBvx8C&pg=PA101|year=2007|publisher=Mittal Publications|isbn=978-81-8324-179-3|page=101}} He was both the first graduate and the first Indian Civil Service officer from the state of Assam.{{cite web | url=http://www.mail-archive.com/assam@assamnet.org/msg08542.html | title=For the first time in Assam | accessdate=27 November 2012}}{{cite web | url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040306/asp/guwahati/story_2967105.asp | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304071736/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040306/asp/guwahati/story_2967105.asp | url-status=dead | archive-date=4 March 2016 | title=A tale of the first torchbearer of higher education in Northeast | newspaper=The Telegraph | accessdate=27 November 2012 | author=Dipankar Banerjee}} He was the first Indian to attain the post of district magistrate in India.