Bahadur Gaon Burah belonged to Assam and was born in 1819. His family held the royal position of 'Akhorkota Barua' entrusted with the responsibility of writing on the copper plate inscriptions recording land grants made to the Adhikaras or Satradhikars (Head priests) of Auniati, Kamalabari, Dakhinpat, and other Satras. Bahadur was one of the main revolutionary leaders of the First War of Independence in Assam who, along with Maniram Dewan, had participated in the 1857 revolt against the British. Earlier, before joining the war of independence, the British had appointed him the village headman of Jorhat and Titabor and he was popularly known as Bahadur for his courage. Bahadur, whose real name was Bahadil, was a close aide of Maniram Dewan Baruah and Piyali Baruah. Dewan was a confidante and counselor to the Ahom King Purundar Singha. He was the first Indian to set up a tea garden at Chenimore in Jorhat. The Britishers deposed Purandar Singha and took control of the administration. When the uprising of 1857 broke out, Maniram viewed it as an excellent opportunity to restore Ahom rule in Assam. He and a few other freedom fighters together planned an anti-colonial agitation. He mobilized the Ahom rulers and the Assam Light Infantry sepoys for this uprising. The plot was discovered by the British before it could begin. During the First War of Indian Independence, Bahadur was entrusted by Dewan with the task of mobilizing support among the Khilonjia Muslim community. He was also involved in arranging arms and ammunition to carry out an armed revolt in Assam along with the disgruntled soldiers of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh in the British army. Dewan along with Piyoli Baruah was arrested and they were publicly executed by hanging at Jorhat jail on 26 February 1858. Bahadur was put on trial for treason along with Dewan and others by the British in Jorhat in 1858 and was sentenced to life imprisonment in Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Bahadur along with his associates Dutiram Barua, Farmud Ali, Binoy Laskar, and Gopen Roy was among the initial batch of two hundred-odd rebels who were deported to the islands in a ship named 'Bernaje' (1859). He died at his son’s residence in Daflating near Titabor in 1891 after returning from Kalapani (Andaman Islands) following the commutation of his sentence. He was buried at New Balibat in Jorhat. The people of Titabor built a memorial with a museum in memory of Bahadur Gaon Burah.