- Lived:
- 14 October 1864 — by the family's account, on a boat moored at Ahatguri on the Brahmaputra — to 26 March 1938, Dibrugarh; boyhood in Sivasagar, student years in Calcutta, working decades in Sambalpur (Odisha): almost the whole life lived outside Assam, for Assam
- Field:
- literature — satirist, pioneer of the Assamese short story, editor of Jonaki; the central maker of modern Assamese letters
- The Big Idea:
- A language that had been thrown out of its own schools and courts got a modern literature in one working lifetime — because a timber merchant spent his evenings giving it a journal, its first short stories, its laughter, its remembered saints and its anthem.
- In their words:
- "O mor āponār dex" — "O my own dear land" (1909)
- If you remember one thing:
- Assam still rises to its feet for a song written by a man who lived five hundred miles away — because when Assamese had almost nothing, Lakshminath Bezbaroa gave it nearly everything a modern literature needs.