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Kuladhor Chaliha (click for stamp information)
Kuladhor Chaliha (click for stamp information)

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Kuladhor Chaliha (click for stamp information)
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19 June 1988
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Kuladhor Chaliha was born on 20th September, 1886 at Sibsagar,  the  son of Raibahadur Phanidhor Chaliha Kuladhor Chaliha, with Karmabir Nabin Chandra Bardoloi and Deshabhakta Tarun Ram Phukan, was one of the top-rankig leaders of the freedom movement in Assam.

 

After studying law, he joined the Assam Civil Service as an Extra Assistant Commissioner in 1913, but he resigned due to disagreement with the policy of the British Government. He took up the cause of opium prohibition in Assam, taking up preventive measures  along with the late Krishna Nath Sarma, a follower of Mahatma Gandhi. He also joined the Bar at Jorhat Court and was soon known as a promising advocate.

 

After the massacre at Jalianwala Bagh in 1919, he joined the Congress under the leadership of Mahatma  Gandhi. He was convicted and jailed for one year in 1921. In 1920, he was elected the first President of the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee. He joined Reverend C.P. Andrews and Horace Alexander in their opium prohibition campaign in 1928. When the Assam Legislative Council was formed in 1927, he was elected one of its Members. He was also elected to the Lesislative Assembly after the death of Nabin Chandra Bardoloi. He was a member of the Constituent Assembly of India. One of the pioneer Congress Leaders of Assam, he was elected to the Assam Legislative Assembly from Katonigaon Constituency of Jorhat and ramained  as  its  Speaker  from  1952-57.

 

He passed  away on  19th Jannuary,  1963.

 

Source : Information Folder issued by Indian Posts & Telegraph Department, Government of India

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