Professor Amalendu Guha: A Tribute

Professor Amalendu Guha’s passing away on the morning of 7 May 2015 is a huge loss for the world of historical scholarship in India. It will not be an exaggeration to describe him as a pioneer of modern history of Assam and among the tallest of Indian historians of twentieth century. Starting his career as a young teacher in Darrang College, Tezpur in 1948, he went on to become one of the greatest historians of North East India. His scholarship, though well known for works on Assam, also included some of the finest research works on aspects of quantitative, entrepreneurial and economic history of modern India.