Born on 12 January 1927 at Sohra to late Bransly Marpna Pugh and Glis Diengdoh, Pugh had his education at Gauhati University.
The lizard was recently rediscovered after 118 years in the Jeypore Reserve Forest by Mazedul Islam and Professor Prasanta Kumar Saikia of the Animal Ecology and Wildlife Biology Laboratory of the Zoology Department, Gauhati University in 2012.
After coming back from Cambridge he became a professor at the Department of English in Gauhati University.
Apart from it, Jorhat is the home of internationally reputed ideologist and educationist like Krishna Kanta Handique, former Vice Chancellor of Gauhati University.
Lankeshwar {(Pron: ˈlæŋˌkeɪʃwə(r)} Temple is an ancient Shiva temple on top of a hillock in the western part of the Guwahati city near Gauhati University campus.
Dr. Medhi, an anthropologist of Gauhati University has published in one of his research papers that a civilization similar to the Indus Valley civilization flourished in the Brahmaputra Valley.
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