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Indian writer and social scientist (born 1939)

Hiren Gohain (born 1939) is a scholar, writer, literary critic, and social scientist from the Indian state of Assam.^[1]

Academic life

Gohain studied in Cotton College, and did his graduation from Presidency College, Calcutta and then moved to Delhi University to pursue his post-graduation in English literature.

After completion of his master's degree, for some time, he became a lecturer in Kirori Mal College of Delhi University. Later, he went to the Cambridge University for doctoral research on the topic 'Paradise Lost and the 17th Century Crisis' later published as 'Tradition and Paradise Lost: A Heretical View', a work highly acclaimed for its original research and fresh perspective.

After coming back from Cambridge, he became a professor at the Department of English in Gauhati University.^[2]

As a literary critic

It was Gohain who for the first time brought the ideas and methods of Anglo