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Ambika Charan Choudhury Edit Profile

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Ambika Charan Choudhury was a noted Assamese litterateur, historian and activist from Bongaigaon in Assam.

Education

Born on August 16, 1930 to a poor family, Nareshwar Choudhury (father) and Kashiguri Devi (mother), in Borpara village of Bongaigaon, Ambika Charan Choudhury attended schooling in local Birjhara High school, Bongaigaon.

Career

Popularly he is known as Kamataratna. He obtained a graduate degree from Cotton College, Guwahati. After that he joined government services at Shillong.

Later he changed several jobs and finally retired as Principal of Bongaigaon Normal School.

Choudhury always get attached with many social and political organizations. He devoted most of his life for the development and promotion of Rajbanshi language and culture, also known as Goalpariya.

Choudhury was leading the popular demand for Schedule Tribe status to the Koch-Rajbangshi community since 1958. He was actively involved with the Sanmilita Jatiya Abhibartan, which is facilitating the peace process between Government of India and the moderate wing of the rebel group ULFA. He died on December 4, 2011 in a road mishap at Tetultola near Kamakhyaguri in West Bengal.

Achievements

  • Choudhury was a recipient of Bir Chilarai award, instituted by the Government of Assam. He was regarded the backbone of Koch-Rajbanshi language movement and was conferred the title of Kamataratna by many cultural and literary organizations.

Membership

He was an executive member of Assam Xahitya Xabha, joint secretary of OBC Xahitya Xabha, secretary of undivided Goalpara District Xahitya Xabha, and secretary of Koch-Rajbanshi Sanmilany.