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Barua or Baruah or Barooah and even spelt in general (apart from the first three established and common spellings listed here in,) as; Baroova/Baroowa/Borooah is a most common tittle or surname of Assamese people, {people from the North-Eastern State Assam (India)}.
Originally the title was conferred for most of class of officers in the Ahom kingdom of medieval Assam. The Ahom appointed officers with various title and the title Baruah means a " Leader of 3000 men".
The Baruas'/Baruahs'/Barooahs' of Assam are Hindus by faith and have been a key contributors to the growth of Assamese community.However, Baruahs' or Barooahs' especially of Upper - Assam and also to an extent in Lower and Middle/Central-Assam are generally Brahmins representing General Caste people having or carrying specific Gotras i.e., proper Brahmin Identity Surnames.Even Baroova and others with middle title or surname such as, Ram, Prasad, Ranjan, Krishnakant, Govind, Chandra - Barooah / Baruah / Barua are most commonly Brahmins.
Other Barooahs'/Baruahs'/Baruas' may be carrying similar or even same middle-tittles are Hindus and non-Brahmins who are generally Ahoms - (descendants of Ahom Community) or Kalitas (as generally referred) and worship saints of Assamese Community.
The first Assamese Barua that made his mark pan India was Ananda Ram Baruah who was the fifth ICS officer in India. India's first silent actor was Pramathesh Barua also popularly known as P.C.Barua and also the director of the Famous movie " Devdas" both in Hindi and Bengali.Swargajyoti Barooah (originally Swargajyoti Datta but later married to ex-freedom fighter-Tamra Patra Recipient and once renowned advocate of Assam esp. in Upper-Assam and father of Debo Prasad Barooah; Shri Tara Prasad Barooah ) was one of the few first Assamese/Indian film actresses to act in the first Assamese Film "Joymoti" directed by Jyotiprasad Agrwalla way back in 1935.
There is a community in Bangladesh with the same namecitation needed, for that article, visit Barua (Bangladesh)
Barua is the last name of Bengali speaking People who are almost exclusively Buddhist and are concentrated heavily in the Chittagong and nearby hill tracts of Bangladesh, who migrated to Rangoon,Calcutta and many other cities during British Raj as Chefs and restaurant owners. The plain Buddhists of Bangladesh known as the Burua-Buddhist are the ancient peoples of Bangladesh who have lived here for five thousand years according to Arakanese chronology. They insist that they came from the Aryavarta or the country of the Aryans which is practically identical to the country later known as the Majjhimadesh or Madhyadesh in Pali literature [1].
Interestingly "Barua" last name is also found in Europe, South America and Africa.