Veteran Historian and social scientist Dr Amalendu Guha has passed away at the age of 91 due to age related issues. Guha is survived by his wife and eminent writer Anima Guha and a son. Guha became very famous for his book  Planter Raj to Swaraj. Guha’s body was donated to the Gauhati Medical College as per his will he wrote in 2005. He also pledged his eyes to Shankardev Nethralaya, Guwahati. He was known for his extensive research related to the socio-economic history of Assam.

Guha’s other works include

• Medieval and Early Colonial Assam: Society, Polity and Economy.
• Netaji Subhash: Ideology and Doctrine.
• Tomaloi – collection of Assamese poems.

Tidbits

• Amalendu Guha was born in 1924 in Imphal.
• He completed his masters from Presidency College, Kolkata.
• He started his career as a teacher in Darrang College, Tezpur.
• He was arrested once for being an active member of the Communist Party of India in 1962 in the wake of the Chinese aggression.
• He taught at Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, and Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi.
• He was a history professor at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata.

The Assam government has expressed profound grief on his demise and conveyed condolences to the bereaved family.