NEWS

21.07.2015

February, 11, 2015. The library of Gauhati University, Assam is named after Krishna Karta Handiqui, the founder Vice-Chancellor of Gauhati University for nine years (1948–57).

The library of Gauhati University, Assam is named after Krishna Karta Handiqui, the founder Vice-Chancellor of Gauhati University for nine years (1948–57). He also studied and learned many languages like Latin, Greek, French, German, Russian, Italian and Spanish. He is known to have known 13 languages: 8 European languages and 5 Indian languages including Pali and Prakrit.
The Director of the Library is Dr. Umashankar DevNath showed Russian students and teachers the old manuscripts and Russians books collection.