Rajanikanta Bordoloi | |
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Born | Guwahati, Assam | 24 November 1867
Died | 25 March 1940[1] Guwahati, Assam | (aged 72)
Pen name | Upanyash Samrat (king of novel) |
Occupation | Writer, sub-deputy collector, tea planter |
Language | Assamese |
Nationality | Indian |
Notable works | Miri Jiyori (1894)[2] |
Rajanikanta Bordoloi was a noted writer, journalist and tea planter from Assam, India.[3] [4] Some critics called him the Walter Scott of Assam.[4][5] He was President of the Asam Sahitya Sabha in 1925 which was held at Nagaon.[6]
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.[7]
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.
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.
Bardoloi's novel Khamba-Thoibir Sadhukatha (The tale of Khamba and Thoibi) is an adaptation of a Manipuri legend entitled 'Khamba-Thoibi-Givari'.