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| birth_place = Charing, Sibsagar, [[Assam]], [[India]]
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'''Nakul Chandra Bhuyan''' (1895–1968) was an Indian historian, playwright, essayist and a short story writer of [[Assamese language]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.assam.org/node/2342 |title=Men | Assam Portal |publisher=Assam.org |access-date=2013-05-14}}</ref>

==Life and career ==
The only son of Gopal Chandra Bhuyan and Dalimi Bhuyan, Nakul Chandra Bhuyan was born in 1895 in Charing, Sibsagar District of Assam {{Citation needed|date=May 2013}}.

Educated at Jorhat Government Boys' School, Bhuyan passed his matriculation in 1916 and went on to pursue further studies in [[Calcutta]]. He returned from Calcutta in 1921 and began working as a Librarian in [[Dibrugarh]], Assam. Later, he joined as an assistant in the Chief Engineering Department of Dibru-Sadiya Railways and thereafter as an assistant in the Deputy Commissioner's office.

In 1923 he got transferred to [[Tezpur]] and around the same time married Kumudeshwari Bhuyan. While at Tezpur he came into contact with various theatre personalities working with the [[Baan theatre]], which inspired him to start writing for the stage. Bhuyan was the president of the [[Asam Sahitya Sabha]] in 1967 held at [[Dibrugarh district]], Assam.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vedanti.com/News/assam_sahitya_sabha_is_the_forem.htm |title=Asam Sahitya Sabha is the foremost and the most popular organization of Assam |publisher=Vedanti.com |access-date=2013-05-15}}</ref> He also compiled and edited the first authentic edition of [[Bihu song]]s, titled "Bohagi" in 1923. Padmadhar Chaliha, the poet-composer of some memorable lyrics inspired by the freedom movement wrote around 1921 an introduction and called the Bihu songs pastoral poetry. The Times of Assam in its adulatory review (19 May 1923) went a step further, describing the poetry as comparable to the best of pastoral poetry of the European tradition.
<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1030113/asp/northeast/story_1567548.asp |title=telegraphindia.com |newspaper=[[The Telegraph (Calcutta)|The Telegraph]] |access-date=2013-05-14}}</ref>

In 1924, Bhuyan gave up government job and joined Cinamara Tea Estate as Assistant Manager. His sincerity, dedication, and hard work led him to the honorable position of Senior Manager of Jorehaut Tea Company. In 1954, he retired from Borsapori Tea Estate as Senior Manager.

In his memory a main Thoroughfare in the heart of Jorhat town has been named as "Xahitik Nakul Chandra Bhuyan Path".

[[File:NakulCBhuyan.jpg|thumb|right|Left to Right,
Late Nakul Chandra Bhuyan, President Axom Xahitya Xabha 1967
Late Nilamoni Phookan, President A.X.X 1944,47,
Late Jatindra Nath Duorah, President A.X.X 1955,
Late Padmadhar Chaliha, President A.X.X 1958 ]]

[[File:Nakul Chandra Bhuyan Ancestral Home.jpg|thumb|right|The house of Nakul Chandra Bhuyan is a prominent Heritage Building in the heart of Jorhat town. The house built in 1950s was modeled after the British Tea Estate Bungalows famous in Assam]] [[File:Nakul Chandra Bhuyan.jpg|alt=NakulChandraBhuyan|thumb|Late Nakul Chandra Bhuyan with his family members.]]

==Literary works==
Some of his literary works are:
* Axom Buranjir Ek Adhyai - Baro Bhuyan
* Baro Bhuyanar Somu Buranji<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.joiaaiaxom.com/assam/about/books-and-authors-74.html |title=Books and Authors of Assam |publisher=Joiaaiaxom.com |access-date=2013-05-14}}</ref>
* Suransuar Sora
* Golpar Xorai
* Xahu Aai
* Badan Barphukan
* Chandrakanta Singha
* Bidruhi Moran
* Bohagi
* Numali Kunwari<ref>{{cite journal |last=Malik |first=Syed Abdul |year=1966 |title=Assamese: a cloudy horizon |journal=Indian Literature |volume=9 |issue=4 |pages=15–19 |jstor=23329517}}</ref>
* Cha Bagisar Banua
* Xunhotor Bhishma
* Gadapanir Sesh Sidhanta (1923)<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W2dtxgZba6MC&pg=PA270&lpg=PA270&dq=Nakul+Chandra+Bhuyan&source=bl&ots=3YEmC8-e6_&sig=3Z6iiXDCJB_-lOz3lCSnM1c0PaQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=VI6SUbexDYyIrgeQ9oC4AQ&ved=0CCsQ6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q=Nakul%20Chandra%20Bhuyan&f=false |title=Empire’s Garden: Assam and the Making of India - Jayeeta Sharma - Google Books |via=[[Google Books]]|access-date=2013-05-14}}</ref>
* Rādhākānta Sandikai ḍāṅarīẏā<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3NVWAAAAMAAJ&q=inauthor:%22Nakul+Chandra+Bhuyan%22&dq=inauthor:%22Nakul+Chandra+Bhuyan%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=uY2SUcjWM4n-rAfssoHwBQ&ved=0CC4Q6wEwAA |title=Rādhākānta Sandikai ḍāṅarīẏā - Nakul Chandra Bhuyan - Google Books |via=[[Google Books]]|access-date=2013-05-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qOqEsStmcQQC&pg=PA157 |title=Among the Luminaries in Assam: A Study of Assamese Biography - Anjali Sarma - Google Books |via=[[Google Books]]|access-date=2013-05-14}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Assamese literature]]
* [[List of Asam Sahitya Sabha presidents]]
* [[List of Assamese writers with their pen names]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.assam.org/node/2342 Men], a story by Nakul Chandra Bhuyan, translated by Khanindra Pathak and [[Jugal Kalita]] at assam.org.

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[[Category:20th-century Indian dramatists and playwrights]]
[[Category:1895 births]]
[[Category:1968 deaths]]
[[Category:Writers from Assam]]
[[Category:Asom Sahitya Sabha Presidents]]
[[Category:People from Sivasagar district]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian historians]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian essayists]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian short story writers]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian male writers]]

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