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DescriptionHemchandra Goswami.jpg	English: Hemchandra Goswami (1872-1928) was an eminent 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.
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