Gauhati University, also known as GU, is a collegiate public state university located in

Guwahati Guwahati (, ; formerly rendered Gauhati, ) is the biggest city of the Indian state of Assam and also the largest metropolis in northeastern India. Dispur, the capital of Assam, is in the circuit city region located within Guwahati and is the ...

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. It was established on 26 January 1948 under the provisions of an Act enacted by the

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. It is the oldest university in

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. It is accredited grade "A" by

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. Starting with 18 affiliated colleges and 8 Post Graduate Departments in 1948, Gauhati University, today, has 39 Post Graduate Departments, besides IDOL (Institute of Distance and Open Learning), a constituent

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College. It has 341 affiliated colleges offering undergraduate and post graduate courses in the faculties of Arts, Science, Commerce, Law, Medicine, Engineering and Technology. Gauhati University is a member of the Association of Indian Universities and the Association of Commonwealth Universities.

History

The first public demand was made at the annual session of the Assam Association held at

Sivasagar Sivasagar (Pron: or ) ("the sea of Shiva"), is a city in and headquarters of the Sivasagar district, Assam. Sivasagar is situated about 360 kilometers (224 mi) northeast of Guwahati. It is well known for its Ahom palaces and monuments. S ...

in 1917. In 1940, the Government appointed S. K. Bhuyan as Special Officer with the task of collecting relevant information on the selection of site and related matters. The university was established by an act of the State Legislature: the Gauhati University Act 1947 (Assam Act, XVI of 1947) of the government of Assam in 1948. The first court meeting of the university was held on 26 January 1948, which is considered the foundation day, at the old Sudmerson Hall of

Cotton College, Guwahati Cotton University (formerly known as ''Cotton College'') is a public state university located in Guwahati, Assam, India. It was established in 2017 by the provisions of an Act from the Assam Legislative Assembly which merged Cotton College Sta ...

. Gauhati University started functioning as an affiliating, teaching and residential university in a few temporary buildings in Guwahati, with K.K Handique as the first vice-chancellor, Phanidhar Dutta, Sailandhar Rajkhowa and Sarat Kumar Dutta were selected as the registrar, treasurer and secretary of university classes, respectively. The emblem of the university, selected from among many submitted, was designed by T. Mukherjee, a textile designer of Ahmedabad. Two

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words inscribed on it – Vidyaya Sadhayeta (meaning achievement through learning) – indicate the motto of the university. It had 17 affiliated colleges and eight Post Graduate Departments on its establishment. The university which started functioning from the city center was shifted to the present campus in 1955–56.

Campus

The university is in

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in the

city area. The campus has a hillock on the southern side and the

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river flows on the northern side. The campus area has been developed into a small township, now known as 'Gopinath Bardoloi Nagar'. It has about 6000 population including 3700 students residing in the hostels. Apart from the residential quarters of teachers, officers and employees, there are 22 halls of residence for students. The necessary civic amenities such as health service, water supply, street lighting, internal roads, guest house, post and telegraph office, a branch of the State Bank of India,

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, canteens, a market, parks, playgrounds, auditorium, indoor stadium, etc. are on campus. The university is 10 km from the

Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport , also known as Guwahati International Airport and formerly as 'Borjhar Airport', is an international airport serving Guwahati, the largest city of North-East India in Assam, India, and is als ...

on National Highway No. 37; 5 km from

Kamakhya Railway Station Kamakhya Junction railway station is a railway junction station located at Maligaon in Guwahati in the Indian state of Assam. Location The station lies near to the headquarters of Northeast Frontier Railway. It is the second-largest railway ...

; and 10 km from

Guwahati Railway Station Guwahati railway station (Station code: GHY) is located in the heart of the city of Guwahati, Assam. It is the first fully solar-operated railway station in India. It has been rated as A1-category station. Just behind the Guwahati Railway Stati ...

as well as from the bus stop near the Cachari (D.C. court) at the heart of Guwahati City. The capital complex of Assam at Dispur is 22 km from the university. The university is easily accessible from the Guwahati city; Guwahati has road, rail and air links from all parts of the country. A large number of bus services from parts of Assam have their station at Adabari bus stand which is 2 km from the campus. To automate their internal processes, Gauhati University has chosen Kalingasoft's flagship Education ERP solution, Greycells. This implementation has resulted in the complete automation of the university's academic, administrative and financial processes.

Library and regional center

The North Eastern Regional Centre (NERC) of the

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(ICHR) is in the Gauhati University Central Library Extension Building. Along with Bangalore ICHR Regional Centre, this is the only regional centre in GU so far. The university's Krishna Kanta Handique Library is a designated 'Manuscript Conservation Centre' (MCC) under the

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established in 2003. The library is the largest in Assam, holding about 850,000 books, magazines, and journals in its collection. It also hosts about 5,000 valuable priceless manuscripts, some more than 300 years old.

Organisation and administration

Governance

Administrative Building, Gauhati University

The G.U. Court, the Executive Council and the Academic Council are the authorities of the university. In 2019, Professor Pratap Jyoti Handique was appointed as the Vice-Chancellor of the university.

Faculties

Academic faculties

The institution is divided into following academic units: * Faculty of Arts **

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** Disabilities Studies **

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** English Language Teaching **

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** Foreign Languages **

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** Library and Information Science **

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** Modern Indian Languages ( Odia,

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, Nepali) **

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** Philosophy **

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** Philosophy **

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* Faculty of Sciences **

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** Chemistry ** Environmental Science **

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** Mathematics **

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** Statistics **

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* Faculty of Technology **

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Computer Science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to practical disciplines (includi ...

** Electronics and Communication Engineering ** Electronics and Communication Technology **

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** Instrumentation and USIC **

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* Faculty of Commerce **

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* Faculty of Management ** Business Administration * Faculty of Law **

Post Graduate Students' Union

The Post Graduate Students' Union is the apex student representative body of Gauhati University. The first body of PGSU was formed in the year 1949. The first General Secretary was Biren Goswami. Gauhati University being the epicenter of student politics, the PGSU gets high recognition in the state. There are many General Secretaries as well as other office bearers of PGSU who have been involved in the active politics. The present General Secretary of PGSU is Parshwa Patgiri.

Colleges

When Gauhati University was established, it had 17 affiliated colleges. Today it has 326 colleges in Assam which are affiliated to Gauhati University. This included Cotton College until it became a university. The affiliation of Cotton College was transferred from

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to Gauhati University after the later was established in 1948.

Academics

Rankings

The ''

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'' ranked Gauhati University in the 501–550 band in

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in the year 2022 and 271–280 among

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nations in 2019. The

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(NIRF) ranked Gauhati University 64th overall in India and 36th among universities in 2022. The

ranked the Gauhati University as follows:

Affiliated colleges

Its jurisdiction extends over 15 districts -Bajali, Barpeta, Biswanath, Bongaigaon, Darrang, Dhubri, Goalpara, Hojai, Kamrup Metropolitan,

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, Morigaon, Nagaon, Nalbari, Sonitpur, south salmara mankachar .

Notable people

Notable alumni

* Dr.

Rafiqul Islam (politician) Rafiqul Islam, also known as Dr Hafiz Rafiqul Islam is an Indian politician serving as a member of Assam Legislative Assembly from AIUDF since 2011. Dr Islam got elected in 2021 with the highest margin of votes i.e. 1.4 lakh, in the state of as ...

, MLA and former guest lecturer Gauhati University *

Dinesh Prasad Goala Dinesh Prasad Goala (1947–2014) was an Indian Politician and former MLA of Lakhipur, representing INC for 7 consecutive terms (1983–2014) until his death. He also served as '' Minister in-charge of Power & Public Health Engineering Dept., ...

, Politician and former MLA of

Lakhipur Lakhipur (IPA: ˈlækɪˌpʊə), is a town and a Municipal Board in Cachar district in the Indian state of Assam. Etymology The name ''Lakhipur'' is said to be very ancient. Two schools of opinion on the origin of its name exist. According to o ...

* Ambika Charan Choudhury, litterateur *

Jitendra Nath Goswami Jitendranath Goswami (born 18 November 1950) is an Indian scientist from Jorhat, Assam. He was the Chief Scientist of Chandrayaan-1, and was also the developer of this project. He served as a director of Physical Research Laboratory situated a ...

, Indian scientist, chief scientist of

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, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Laureate (1994),

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(2017) * Bhabananda Deka, economist *

Zubeen Garg Zubeen Garg (born Zubeen Borthakur; 18 November 1972) is an Indian singer, music director, composer, lyricist, music producer, actor, film director, film producer, script writer and philanthropist. He primarily works for and sings in the Assa ...

, Singer, Composer, Filmmaker, Director and Actor. *

Kashmiri Saikia Baruah Kashmiri Saikia Baruah is an Indian film and stage actress and singers who works in Assamese cinema. She was born in Mangaldoi, Assam. She has played stellar roles in award-winning Assamese films such as ''Putola Ghar'', ''Sandhya Raag'', '' Ag ...

, Actress and Singer. *

Mamoni Raisom Goswami Indira Goswami (14 November 1942 – 29 November 2011), known by her pen name Mamoni Raisom Goswami and popularly as Mamoni Baideo, was an Indian writer, poet, professor, scholar and editor. She was the winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award (1983 ...

, novelist,

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(1983),

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(2001), Principal Prince Claus Laureate (2008) * Dipak C. Jain, professor, European president at

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Hitendra Nath Goswami Hitendra Nath Goswami is an Indian politician from Bharatiya Janata Party. He served as Speaker of Assam Legislative Assembly from 30 January 2017 to 20 May 2021. Goswami is a member of Assam Legislative Assembly from Jorhat constituency. He w ...

, former Speaker of

* Nagen Saikia, Indian writer,

(1997) *

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, politician, former

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of State, Water Resources * Elangbam Nilakanta Singh, poet,

(1987),

(2000) * Ritu Lalit, Indian writer *

Sarbananda Sonowal Sarbananda Sonowal ( Assamese: সৰ্বানন্দ সোণোৱাল / IPA: xɔɹbanɔndɔ xʊnʊwal; born 31 October 1962) is an Indian politician from Assam who is the current Cabinet Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways and ...

, politician,current union minister, former chief minister of Assam *

Prafulla Kumar Mahanta Prafulla Kumar Mahanta is an Indian Politician who was the leader of the Assam Movement, a former Chief Minister of Assam (two terms) and the former President of the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), a major political party in the Indian state of Assam ...

, former chief minister of Assam * Mukundakam Sharma, lawyer, former judge in the Supreme Court of India, former Chief Justice of

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* Temsula Ao, novelist,

(2007),

(2013) * Atul Bora, politician * Dr.

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, current Chief Minister of Assam * Riniki Bhuyan Sharma, lawyer and entrepreneur. *

Ramkrishna Ghosh Ramkrishna Ghosh is an Indian politician. He is a member of Bharatiya Janata Party. He was elected to the Assam Legislative Assembly from 91 No. Hojai constituency in the 2021 Assam Legislative Assembly election The 2021 Assam Legislative ...

, politician * Ardhendu Kumar Dey, politician * Adv.Aminul Islam, Current MLA - 21 Mankachar Constituency, General Secretary. Org & Chief Spokesperson (AIUDF),

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, Social Worker *

Dhruba Hazarika Dhruba Hazarika (born 1956) is an Indian novelist who writes in English language. He is the author of 'A Bowstring Winter', 'Sons of Brahma', 'Luck'. Early life and employment Hazarika was born in Shillong, Meghalaya. After graduating from St ...

, novelist * Siddhartha Bhattacharya, politician * Nirmal Prabha Bordoloi, novelist,

(1983) * Arupa Kalita Patangia, novelist,

(2014) *

Bhupendra Nath Goswami Bhupendra Nath Goswami (born 1950) is an Indian meteorologist, climatologist, a former director of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM). and a Pisharoty Chair Professor at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research. He ...

, Indian scientist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Laureate (1995) * Mahim Bora, Indian writer,

(2001),

(2011) *

Tarun Gogoi Tarun Gogoi (11 October 1936 – 23 November 2020) was an Indian politician who served as the Chief Minister of Assam from 2001 to 2016. He was a member of the Indian National Congress and led the party to a record three consecutive electoral vi ...

, former Chief Minister of Assam * Harishankar Brahma, 19th

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Birendra Nath Datta Birendra Nath Datta (born 1 March 1935) is an Indian academician, a linguist, a researcher of folklore, a singer and lyricists of Assam. In his career, he mainly worked as a professor in different colleges of Assam. He also wrote scholarly books. ...

, Indian researcher, Padma Shri (2009) *

Debapratim Purkayastha Debapratim Purkayastha (Bengali: দেবপ্রতিম পুরকায়স্থ; born 1976) was a professor of strategy, academic leader and case method expert. Early life and education Purkayastha was born in Hailakandi, Assam, t ...

, Indian educator * Kishore Jadav, writer

Notable faculty

* Debo Prasad Barooah, former vice-chancellor * Surya Kumar Bhuyan, former vice-chancellor * Amarjyoti Choudhury, former lecturer *

Krishna Kanta Handique Krishna Kanta Handique (20 July 1898 – 7 June 1982) was a Sanskrit scholar, an Indologist and philanthropist from Assam. He was a recipient of the civilian honour of the Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan. Biography Krishna Kanta Handique was ...

, founder vice-chancellor of Gauhati University, Padma shri(1955), Padma Bhushan(1967) *

Bhupen Hazarika Bhupen Hazarika () (8 September 1926 – 5 November 2011) was an Indian playback singer, lyricist, musician, poet, actor, filmmaker and politician from Assam, widely known as ''Sudha Kontho'' (meaning cuckoo, literally "nectar-throated"). His ...

, former lecturer * Banikanta Kakati, former dean of Faculty of Arts and head of the Assamese Department. * Jyotiprasad Medhi, former head and professor of statistics department. *

Maheswar Neog Professor Maheswar Neog (7 September 1915 – 13 September 1995) was an Indian academic who specialised in the cultural history of the North East India especially Assam, besides being an Assamese-language scholar and poet. He was a top Indologis ...

, former professor * N. U. Prabhu, former lecturer *

Bhabendra Nath Saikia Bhabendra Nath Saikia (20 February 1932 – 13 August 2003) was a novelist, short-story writer, Editor and a Film director from Assam, India. Dr. Saikia received his doctorate in physics from the University of London. He began his career as a ...

, former lecturer

References

External links

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