Hemchandra Goswami
Hemchandra Goswami was an Indian writer, poet, historian, teacher and a linguist from Assam in the early part of modern Assamese literature. He was the fourth president of the Asom Sahitya Sabha in 1920 held at Tezpur. He retired as Extra Assistant Commissioner in the British Assam..Goswami published the first Assamese dictionary, Hemkosh by Hemchandra Barua with the help of Colonel Gordon in 1900. Some of his other works include Asamiya sahityar chaneki, Phular Saki, which contains the first sonnet in Assamese — 'Priyatamar Sithi', Kako am hiya nibilao etc. 'Katha Gita' of Bhattadev was edited by him in 1918. which contains the first sonnet in Assamese — 'Priyatamar Cithi'
