# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chandra-kumar-agarwala
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:26:30.786Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chandra-kumar-agarwala"
name: "Chandra Kumar Agarwala"
slug: "chandra-kumar-agarwala"
description: "Chandra Kumar Agarwala was a writer, poet, journalist from Assam. He is a pioneer of the Jonaki Era, the age of romanticism of Assamese literature. Agarwala was titled as Pratimar Khonikor in Assamese literature. Agarwala was the first editor and financer of the Jonaki magazine and a founder member of Asamiya Bhasa Unnati Sadhini Sabha, a literary organization of Assam with his intimate friends Lakshminath Bezbarua and Hemchandra Goswami. Agarwala, along with his friend Lakshminath and Hemchandra, are known as \"Trimurti of Assamese literature\" for their remarkable contribution to the very beginning of modern Assamese literature. Chandra Kumar Agarwala was the brother of writer and poet Ananda Chandra Agarwala and uncle of Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, a noted poet, playwright, composer, lyricist, writer and first Assamese Filmmaker."
tagline: "Writer, poet"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chadra_Kumar_Agarwala.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1867-11-28"
deathDate: "1938-03-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.08
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.214328
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump