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Gogoi
Gogoi (Assamese: গগৈ) is an Assamese surname, used by many communities of Assam including Ahoms and some other communities . The word originates from the Deori word 'Gogoi' which means Younger brother in Deori language. This surname was granted by the Ahom King, to those who were very dear to the Ahom Royal Family, indicating ''high officials to the Ahom Kingdom''. Swargadeo Rudra Singha divided the clans of the ''Satgharia Ahom'' ("Ahom of the seven houses") aristocracy into two main divisions: Gohain and Gogoi. In Ahom Kingdom, two Borphukans with the title of Gogoi from the Dihingia and Patar clan, served Swargadeo Gaurinath Singha and Swargadeo Chandrakanta Singha respectively, as one of the ''Patra Mantris'' (Council of five Ministers). People with this surname include: *Akhil Gogoi, Indian social activist. * Dip Gogoi Indian politician *Ganesh Gogoi, Indian poet * Gaurav Gogoi, Indian politician * Kesab Chandra Gogoi, Indian politician *Lila Gogoi, writer, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 victories and was the longest serving chief minister of the state. During his tenure as the chief minister, he is credited with ending militant insurgency and mitigating violence in addition to improving the state's fiscal condition. He also served six terms as a Member of parliament, Lok Sabha and served as a Union Minister of State in the Ministry of Food and Ministry of Food Processing Industries. He was posthumously awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third-highest civilian honour, in 2021. Early life Tarun Gogoi was born on 11 October 1936 into an ethnic Assamese Tai-Ahom family at Rangajan Tea Estate, erstwhile Sibsagar District, now the Jorhat District of Assam. His father, Kamaleshwar Gogoi was a medical practitioner at Rangajan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kesab Chandra Gogoi
Kesab Chandra Gogoi (29 September 1925 – 5 August 1998) was an Indian politician who was the Chief Minister of the state of Assam for two months in 1982. For most of his political career, he was a member of Indian National Congress. He was a finance minister in the Assam state cabinet twice and a member of the Assam Legislative Assembly from Dibrugarh constituency. Gogoi was born into a family of Tai-Ahom. He was married to Shanti Gogoi in 1951. His wife was the daughter of Padma Kumari Gohain, one of the first female MLAs in Assam, as well as one of the first female state ministers in Assam. His wife was also the daughter of Jogesh Chandra Borgohain, who was an MLC in the 1930s. Gogoi was an advocate at Gauhati High Court and a practitioner in Dibrugarh district court, as well as being a social worker before his entry to politics. Gogoi became the MLA for Dibrugarh for the Janata Party in 1978. He became a minister in the Golap Borbora and Jogendra Nath Hazarika cabinets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akhil Gogoi
Akhil Gogoi is an Indian peasant leader, RTI activist and MLA from Sibsagar, Assam. Over the years he has been leading many anti-graft movements in the state. Gogoi came to national attention after he was awarded the Shanmugam Manjunath Integrity Award in 2008 for his relentless fight against corruption. In 2010, he was awarded the national Right to Information Award by Public Cause Research Foundation for his role in exposing a Rs. 12.5 million scam in Sampoorna Gram Rozgar Yojna in the Golaghat district of Assam. Gogoi is the founder Secretary of Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS)- a left wing peasant organisation based in Assam. Personal life Akhil was born to Boluram and Priyada Gogoi. He attended the Cotton College, Guwahati during 1993–1996, where he studied English literature. He served as the general secretary and magazine secretary of the college students union. Soon he joined the United Revolutionary Movement Council of Assam (URMCA), a mass organisation of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pranab Kumar Gogoi
Pranab Kumar Gogoi (19 August 1936 – 3 February 2020) was an Indian lawyer and politician from Assam belonging to Indian National Congress. He was elected four times as a legislator of the Assam Legislative Assembly. He also served as the speaker of the Assam Legislative Assembly and minister of the Government of Assam. Early life and education Gogoi was born on 19 August 1936 in Guwahati to Girindra Nath Gogoi and Hiranyalata Gogoi. His father was a minister of the Government of Assam. He received LLB degree from Guwahati University in 1961. Political career Gogoi was elected as a legislator of the Assam Legislative Assembly from Sibsagar in 2001. He was also elected from that constituency in 2006. He served as a minister of the Government of Assam from 2006 to 2011. In 2011 he was elected from Sibsagar too. He was appointed the speaker of the Assam Legislative Assembly on 6 June 2011. He served in the post till 28 May 2016. During this time he took steps for "Assamese" d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dip Gogoi
Dip Gogoi ( as, দীপ গগৈ; born 17 December 1951) is an Indian politician who was a Member of Parliament from Lok Sabha. He represents the Kaliabor constituency in Assam and is a member of the Indian National Congress. Background Dip Gogoi is a brother of Tarun Gogoi who was former chief minister of Assam. Dip Gogoi was educated at Dibrugarh University and graduated with a B.Sc. degree. He is married to Mitali Gogoi. Political career Gogoi has served one term as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA). He was elected to the Assam state assembly from the Titabar constituency in 2001 but vacated the seat a few months later for his brother Tarun Gogoi. Gogoi has since served three terms as a Member of Parliament (MP) from the Lok Sabha. He was elected from Kaliabor in the 2002 by-elections (seat vacated by his brother) and was re-elected in 2004 and 2009. Gogoi is a member of the Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahoms
The Ahom (Pron: ), or Tai-Ahom is an ethnic group from the Indian states of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. The members of this group are admixed descendants of the Tai people who reached the Brahmaputra valley of Assam in 1228 and the local indigenous people who joined them over the course of history. Sukaphaa, the leader of the Tai group and his 9000 followers established the Ahom kingdom (1228–1826 CE), which controlled much of the Brahmaputra Valley in modern Assam until 1826. The modern Ahom people and their culture are a syncretism of the original Tai people, Tai and their culture and local Tibeto-Burman people and their cultures they absorbed in Assam. The local people of different ethnic groups of Assam that took to the Tai peoples, Tai way of life and polity were incorporated into their fold which came to be known as Ahom as in the process known as Ahomisation. Many local ethnic groups, including the Borahis who were of Tibeto-Burman origin, were completely subsumed int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ganesh Gogoi
Ganesh Gogoi ( as, গনেশ গগৈ) dv(1907– 1938) was a poet of Assam and then he is remembered also as a lyricist, composer, playwright, actor and football player. He is also known as Papori Kobi. Life Ganesh Gogoi was born at Jorhat of Assam on 28 December 1907. His father's name was Kanak Chandra Gogoi. Ganesh Gogoi's spent his childhood and student life in his native place Jorhat. Passed the Matric examination from Jorhat Government High School in the second division, After matriculation, he was admitted to Cotton College, Guwahati, Assam in the year 1926. He left for Kolkata in 1927 and was admitted to Ripon College (now called Surendranath College) for higher studies. Later on he also got admission to the Kashi Hindu university (Now Banaras Hindu University), but did not complete his study Some of his famous dramas had pictured in ' Jorhat Theatre' where Ganesh Gogoi used to stage these dramas. ;Drama * Jerengar Sati (1937) * Sakunir Pratisodh * Kashmir Ku ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaurav Gogoi
Gaurav Gogoi is an Indian politician of Indian National Congress from the Indian state of Assam. He is son of former chief minister of Assam Tarun Gogoi. He contested the Indian general elections 2014 and 2019 from Kaliabor seat and won. Gaurav left his job at Airtel to join a Delhi-based NGO called Pravah in 2005. Early life and personal life Gaurav Gogoi was born in 1982. His father Tarun Gogoi (died on 23 November 2020) served as Chief Minister of Assam from 2001 to 2016 as the longest-serving chief minister of the state. He graduated from St. Columba's School in Delhi. He then completed B.Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering in 2004 from Indraprastha University, Delhi and then joined the marketing team of Airtel. He later went to the United States of America to study public administration. He holds a Master of Public Administration from New York University. He also enjoys dancing and choreography. In 2013, Gaurav married UK-born Elizabeth Colebourn. In 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simple Gogoi
Simple Gogoi (Assamese: চিম্পল গগৈ, born 1 August 1976) is a director from Assam, India. Her first movie is ''Tumi Jodi Kua'' and later she worked on mega serials, Ad Films and more than hundred music videos. Early life Simple was born in Jorhat, Assam. She is the second child of Late Sarbeswar Gogoi and Late Purnima Gogoi. She graduated from Jagannath Barooah College, Jorhat. In 1998 she moved to Russia and took her lessons on advertising, editing, direction at Moscow State University of Culture and Arts. She also took her lessons on language at Peoples' Friendship University of Russia. After returning from Russia on 2001 she assisted Shivam Nair for TV serial Rooh on Zee TV and worked on house call World of Entertainment. She assisted Manas Adhikari for two years in Guwahati. Simple came into Assamese Film Industry in late 2002. Personal life Simple currently lives in Guwahati, Assam with her younger sister Panchamita Gogoi, elder brother Abhilash Gogoi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lila Gogoi
Dr. Lila Gogoi was a writer, educationist and historian. He was the H. O. D. of Assamese department, Dibrugarh University and Honorary Director, Department of Historical and Antiquarian Studies in Assam. He was also the President of Assam Sahitya Sabha in the session of 1994. Works Literature: Sontara (1954), Khara Shiyalor Biya (1954), Ponakanar Sapon (1955), Horogor Mukuta (1957), Dokait Kon (1957), Kopling Siga Rail (1959), Rangmanor Katha (1963), Nilakhamor Sithi (1963), Beybering Chithi (1976), Brikudar Baruar Biya (1977, 1978), Bishes Ki Likhim (1978), Ghergheri Bus (1981), Bihugeet aru banghosha, Giti Malanca(1964), Asamiya Loka-sahityar Ruprekha (1968). Historical: Buranjiye Parasha Nagar (1957), Herua Dinor Kotha (1957), Lachit Borphukan (1960), Ahom Jati aru Asamiya Sanskriti (1961), Simantar Mati aru Manuh (1963), Sahitya-sanskritir Buranji (1972), Asamor Sanskriti (1982), The Buranjis, historical literature of Assam:a critical survey(1986), The Tai Khamtis(1971), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Promode Gogoi
Promode Chandra Gogoi (29 September 1930 – 6 April 2012) was an Indian politician from the state of Assam. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Assam for five terms, and also served as the Minister for Flood control & Irrigation of the state from 1996 till 2001. Early life Gogoi was born in the Sibsagar district of Upper Assam. Political career Promode was associated with the All India Students Federation during his student days. He joined the Communist Party of India (CPI) in 1948 and was elected to the state assembly of Assam from Sibsagar constituency for the first time in 1967. He was a member of the central secretariat of the CPI and was reappointed to its national executive days before his death at the Patna congress of the party. He was also the President of the All India Trade Union Congress and Vice-President of the World Federation of Trade Unions. Death After experiencing epistaxis, he was admitted to the Guwahati Neurological Research Centre (GNR ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pradip Gogoi
Pradip Gogoi (Assamese: প্ৰদীপ গগৈ) (alias Samiran Gogoi) is the Vice-Chairman of the outlawed outfit ULFA in Assam. He is also one of the founder members of the outfit. He was arrested in Kolkata by West Bengal Police on 8 April 1998 and put in judicial custody at Guwahati. A former electricity board employee Gogoi hails from Sibsagar district of Assam. Since his arrest he has been facing 6 TADA cases. Charges Cases registered against him are: Bail granted On 19 February 2010, TADA judge Soneka Bora of the designated TADA court at Guwahati granted Gogoi bail in three cases—Tada sessions case numbers 1/90, 42/01 and 43/01 — against a surety of Rs 1 lakh for each case. He was granted the bail on conditions that he would not travel abroad till the disposal of the cases, would deposit his passport in the court and not leave the area under the jurisdiction of the without prior permission from the court and if he decides to live in Sivasagar, his hometown, he m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
