The establishment of the town and the name "Gauripur" has an interesting story associated with the main architect of Gauripur, Raza Pratap Chandra Baruah, Zamindar of Rangamati.
Education holds a significant place in the culture of the village, with many of the residents being teachers at the local school and also in the High School at nearby Gauripur town.
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Khudimari is a small village some distance away from the town called Gauripur in the Dhubri district of Assam, one of the seven sister states of northeast India.
The most crucial point in her life came when Dr. Bhupen Hazarika visited Gauripur in 1955 and attended a jalsa organised on a social occasion, the shy young Pratima, though tongue-tied with fear, let her voice and the lyrics of the lokageet in Goalpariya dialect flow in tune with the strings and rhythms of the dhol, junuka, dotora, darinda, dhuluki and Bashi which are musical instruments in Goalpariya culture.
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Pratima Barua Pandey (Assamese: প্ৰতিমা বৰুৱা পাণ্ডে) (Bengali: প্ৰতিমা বড়ুয়া পাণ্ডে) (3 October 1935 – 27 December 2002) was a popular folk singer from the royal family of Gauripur in Western Assam's Dhubri district.
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She mostly spent her early years in between the din of Calcutta and the soothing environments of riverside "Gadadhar" at Gauripur.
Rebati Mohan Dutta Choudhury (1924–2008) was a noted Assamese litterateur, Sahitya Akademi Award winner and an academician basically from Gauripur in Assam.
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Originally from Gauripur of Assam's Goalpara district (undivided), Jamuna was married to the legendary actor director Pramathesh Barua, or P.C. Barua, who died in 1950.