Rajanikanta Bordoloi

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| pseudonym = Upanyash Samrat
(king of novel)

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| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1867|11|24}}

| birth_place = Guwahati, Assam

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| death_place = Guwahati, Assam

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| occupation = Writer, sub-deputy collector, tea planter

| language = Assamese

| nationality = Indian

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| notableworks = Miri Jiyori (1894){{cite book|author1=Nalini Natarajan|author2=Emmanuel Sampath Nelson|title=Handbook of Twentieth Century Literatures of India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1lTnv6o-d_oC&pg=PA28|accessdate=27 April 2013|year=1996|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-28778-7|pages=28–|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140629001759/http://books.google.com/books?id=1lTnv6o-d_oC&pg=PA28|archive-date=29 June 2014|url-status=live}}

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Rajanikanta Bordoloi was a noted writer, journalist and tea planter from Assam, India.{{cite book|author=Meenakshi Mukherjee|title=Early Novels in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VPJ7jqVSl34C&pg=PA19|accessdate=27 April 2013|year=2002|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-260-1342-5|pages=19–|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131011194922/http://books.google.com/books?id=VPJ7jqVSl34C&pg=PA19|archive-date=11 October 2013|url-status=live}}

{{cite web |author=Babul Tamuli |url=http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/details.asp?id=mar2309/edit3 |title=Remembering Rajani Kanta Bordoloi |publisher=Assamtribune.com |date=23 March 2009 |accessdate=26 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140110121503/http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/details.asp?id=mar2309%2Fedit3 |archive-date=10 January 2014 |url-status=live }} Some critics called him the Walter Scott of Assam.{{cite web |url=http://www.indianwriters.org/assam/anu_rani_devi.htm |title=Back to Home |publisher=Indianwriters.org |date=21 May 1972 |accessdate=26 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130914050243/http://indianwriters.org/assam/anu_rani_devi.htm |archive-date=14 September 2013 |url-status=dead }}

He was President of the Asam Sahitya Sabha in 1925 which was held at Nagaon.{{cite web |url=http://www.vedanti.com/News/assam_sahitya_sabha_is_the_forem.htm |title=Assam Sahitya Sabha is the foremost and the most popular organization of Assam |publisher=Vedanti.com |accessdate=22 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130926194342/http://www.vedanti.com/News/assam_sahitya_sabha_is_the_forem.htm |archive-date=26 September 2013 |url-status=live }}

As a part of the cultural exchange between Assamese culture and Meitei culture, the Meitei classic tale of Khamba and Thoibi became an Assamese classic as well, after being translated into Assamese language as "Khamba Thoibir Sadhukatha", by Rajanikanta Bordoloi.—{{Cite book |last=Dalby |first=Andrew |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7dHNCgAAQBAJ&dq=capital+of+culture+Manipur&pg=PA399 |title=Dictionary of Languages: The definitive reference to more than 400 languages |date=2015-10-28 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-4081-0214-5 |pages=399 |language=en |quote=The classic Manipuri tale of Khamba and Thoibi became an Assamese classic as Khamba Thoibir sadhukatha, translated by Rajanikanta Bordoloi (1869-1939), author and anthropologist.}}
—{{Cite book |last=Bardoloi Nirmalprabhya |url=https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.231082/page/14/mode/2up |title=Rajani Kanta Bardoloi |title-link= |date=1995 |publisher=Sahitya Akademi |others=Internet Archive; Digital Library of India |location=India |pages=14 |language=en |quote=His tale of Khamba and Thoibi entitled Khamba-Thoibir sadhukatha, a love story of a Manipuri youth named Khamba and a Manipuri maiden named Thoibi, appeared in 1932.}}
—{{Cite book |last=Bardoloi Nirmalprabhya |url=https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.231082/page/32/mode/2up |title=Rajani Kanta Bardoloi |title-link= |date=1995 |publisher=Sahitya Akademi |others=Internet Archive; Digital Library of India |location=India |pages=32, 33, 34 |language=en |quote=Bardoloi's novel Khamba-Thoibir Sadhukatha (The tale of Khamba and Thoibi) is an adaptation of a Manipuri legend entitled 'Khamba-Thoibi-Givari'.}}