Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa (born 1944) was the Governor of Arunachal Pradesh, a state in

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, served August 2016. A retired

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officer of the 1968 batch, he ended his career as Chief Secretary of

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Education

He did M.A. in Economics from the

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. Earlier Rajkhowa finished his schooling from Jorhat Government High School, Intermediate in Arts from J.B. College, Jorhat, and B.A. (Hons.) in Economics from

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 ...

Writings

He was appointed the Governor of

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on 12 May 2015. While on deputation to the

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Ltd (NTPC),

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, a Government of India Public Sector Enterprise, he guided and supervised the publication of the "Do's & Don't's" and was also the Chairman of the Editorial Board of the journal titled ''"Sachetak"''. Mr Rajkhowa also authored a book, ''Central Vigilance Mechanism with special reference to P.S.E's'', besides contributing a number of articles to leading newspapers. The major work of Mr Rajkhowa, which earned him accolade from historians, scholars, intellectuals, military experts and the general readers, is ''Generalissimo Chilarai and his times'', a historical biography on the legendary Koch king

Chilarai Shukladhwaja (Pron:ʃʊkləˈdwɑːdʒ) (1510-1577AD), or more popularly known as Bir Chilarai(Pron:/ʧɪləˌraɪ/), was the 3rd son of Biswa Singha, founder of the Koch Dynasty in Kamata Kingdom and younger brother of Nara Narayan, the 2nd kin ...

. Rajkhowa's other influential work was his second historical biography called ''Sankardeva: His life preachings & practices''. The book's topic was

Srimanta Sankardeva Srimanta Sankardev( শ্ৰীমন্ত শংকৰদেৱ )(; ; 1449–1568) was a 15th–16th century Assamese polymath; a saint-scholar, poet, playwright, dancer, actor, musician, artist social-religious reformer and a figure of im ...

, a cultural and religious figure of Assamese history.

References

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