Jagannath Barooah College
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Jagannath Barooah College (popularly known as J.B. College) is located in Jorhat
, Assam
, India
. It was founded in 1930 and was accredited by National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), India in 2003.
It was named Upper Assam College at first and later Jorhat College on 4th September, 1930. On 25th June 1938, during a meeting under the then president, Chandradhar Barooah, it was renamed to the present Jagannath Barooah College in recognition of the commodious building 'Borpatra Kutir' along with the previous land owner, Murulidhar Barooah. Murulidhar Barooah had inherited this property from his grandfather Jagganath Barooah, who was the first graduate of Upper Assam in 1872 from Presidency College, Calcutta.
Jorhat
Jorhat is a city of Assam in India. Jorhat was established as a new capital in the closing years of the 18th century by the declining Tunkhungia Ahom Dynasty. Jorhat, as the name signifies, was just a couple of markets . Two parallel markets namely, Chowkihat and Macharhat, lay on the eastern...
, Assam
Assam
Assam , also, rarely, Assam Valley and formerly the Assam Province , is a northeastern state of India and is one of the most culturally and geographically distinct regions of the country...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. It was founded in 1930 and was accredited by National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), India in 2003.
It was named Upper Assam College at first and later Jorhat College on 4th September, 1930. On 25th June 1938, during a meeting under the then president, Chandradhar Barooah, it was renamed to the present Jagannath Barooah College in recognition of the commodious building 'Borpatra Kutir' along with the previous land owner, Murulidhar Barooah. Murulidhar Barooah had inherited this property from his grandfather Jagganath Barooah, who was the first graduate of Upper Assam in 1872 from Presidency College, Calcutta.