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'''Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa''' (born 1944) was the [[Governor of Arunachal Pradesh]], a state in [[northeast India]], serving since August 2016. A retired [[Indian Administrative Service]] officer of the 1968 batch, he ended his career as [[Chief Secretary (India)|Chief Secretary]] of [[Assam]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Lever learns to live with danger |url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1031129/asp/nation/story_2624869.asp |work=[[The Telegraph (Kolkata)]] |date=29 November 2003 |accessdate=19 November 2010 }}</ref><br />
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==Education==<br />
He did M.A in Economics from the [[Delhi School of Economics]]. Earlier Rajkhowa finished his schooling from Jorhat Government High School, Intermediate in Arts from J.B College, Jorhat, and B.A (Hons) in Economics from [[Cotton College, Guwahati]].<br />
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==Writings==<br />
He was appointed as the Governor of [[Arunachal Pradesh]] on 12 May 2015.<br />
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While on deputation to the [[National Thermal Power Corporation]] Ltd (NTPC), [[New Delhi]], a Government of India Public Sector Enterprise, he guided and supervised the publication of the "Do's & Don't's" and was also the Chairman of the Editorial Board of the journal titled ''"Sachetak"''. Mr Rajkhowa also authored a book, ''Central Vigilance Mechanism with special reference to P.S.E's'', besides contributing a number of articles to leading newspapers.<br />
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The major work of Mr Rajkhowa, which earned him accolade from historians, scholars, intellectuals, military experts and the general readers, is ''Generalissimo Chilarai and his times'', a historical biography on the legendary Koch king [[Chilarai]].<br />
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Rajkhowa's other influential work was his second historical biography called ''Sankardeva: His life preachings & practices''. The book's topic was [[Srimanta Sankardeva]], a cultural and religious figure of Assamese history.<br />
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