Budhindranath Delihial Bhattacharya

His father's name was Dharmadutta Bhattacharya, and his mother's name was Aai Keteki Devi, of Nowgong(Singia potani), Assam.

In Jaipur, he met Rai Bahadur Radhakanta Handique, Satyanath Bora, and other prominent personalities of pre-independent India who later became his close companions.

His travelogue, Bilaat Jaatra, provides exciting glimpses of Britain and pre-independent India, especially Assam, at the beginning of the 20th century, before the start of the First World War.

After his retirement in 1920, Budhindranath set up a small tea garden at Golaghat Dighalihula and started as an independent business person.

In addition to being one of the founding members of the iconic Jorhat Theatre, he cared deeply about his country and Assamese literature in pre-independent India.

Dramas: Books: Newspapers and magazines to which he contributed his writing: Newspapers (with Sahityarathna Chandradhar Baruah): Dictionary: The Pronouncing Anglo Assamese Dictionary by Budhindranath Bhattacharya|Smoronik - A tribute to Lexicographer Budhindranath Delihial Bhattacharya=Compiled by Jorhat Theatre, edited by Santantu Thakur, printed and published by Abhijit Bhattacharya at New Era Media Services, Jorhat, 2003.

Author's description page photograph taken from the Pronouncing Anglo Assamese Dictionary , First Edition, published in 1931.
Portrait shot of Budhindranath Delihial Bhattacharya, published sometime between 1930 and 1940.