[Assam] Lt Col Sivram Bora

Sat Jul 7 16:48:33 PDT 2007

interesting info.

umesh

Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at charter.net> wrote:  Re: [Assam] Lt Col Sivram Bora I know the street named after Col Sivaram Borah  at the foot of the Nobogroh hill at Guahati. Did not know who he was. So it was an informative and interesting  story of an illustrious Oxomiya. Thanks  for sharing.

 The last sentence caught my eye too : "I feel that this was only possible because of the blood of great people like Lt Col Sivaram Borah and others in my veins."

 If we look at the antecedents of many of Assam's 'successful' or luminaries or pillars of society  today, I would  bet a rupee, that there is or are other such illustrious individuals in their familial past. Not always, but I  think it is largely so.

 So  I  put forth the statement  of a proud great-grandson, steeped in humility, "I feel that this was only possible because of the blood of great people like Lt Col Sivaram Borah and others in my veins"  for further examination.

 Is it because of the 'blood', of the genes in  Roy's veins that his success is rooted in?

 Or could there be other reasons? And if there are other reasons, what might they be?

 At 2:40 PM +0100 7/7/07, utpal borpujari wrote:
 from assam tribune of 07/07/07   Move to resurrect Lt Col Boras memories
 By Ajit Patowary
  GUWAHATI, July 6  Lt Col Sivram Bora was recognized as a medical genius during his lifetime. He has left behind a rich legacy. But, the people of his native place are oblivious of all these. However, one of his great grandsons has come forward to resurrect his memories by sponsoring a research project.

 Bora, the first Assamese MB from Glasgow University, who qualified for the Imperial Medical Service (IMS) in 1874, is argued to be the first Indian to qualify for this service.

 The recent move to resurrect his memories started with an article by noted writer Kumudeswar Hazarika. It was published in The Assam Tribune on March 27 last. It so moved his great grandson Rahul Roy, a former president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, that he rushed to the city to meet Hazarika. Hazarika also has an Assamese article on Lt Colonel Bora in one of his books  Chaiydha Goraki Bisistha Asomiya: Smritir Surabhi.

 Rahul Roy wrote to Hazarika later, 
 I have grown up hearing stories about Lt Col Sivaram Borah from one of his most beloved daughters, my grandmother 
 Your research has opened the door to Alibabas cave for me and I am intrigued with the unfathomed treasures within it

 According to Hazarika, Bora was born on September 19, 1847 in North Guwahati. His uncle Bolram Bora brought him up. He was admitted to Gauhati English School  todays Cotton Collegiate H S School. His classmates there included first Assamese civilian Anundoram Barua and the first Assamese MD from London Col Jalnur Ali Ahmed. The latter was the father of Late Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed.

 After passing the Entrance Examination in 1865, Bora proceeded to Calcutta along with Anundoram Barua and Jalnur Ali Ahmed for higher studies and enrolled himself in Calcutta Medical College.

 Later, he was rewarded for his services to the Indian tea labourers on a sea voyage to Mauritius as an attending doctor and was sent to London for higher studies by the British authorities.

 According to Rahul Roy, Lt Col Bora married Ursula Ujjawala Banerjee, one of the 15 daughters of Mathilda Martha Griffiths, an Irish-Welsh lady and Rev Taracharan Banerjee who was the uncle of WC Banerjee, the first president of the Indian National Congress.

 Bora, who later became a Lieutenant Colonel, had a sonDr Surendranath Bora. He was a famous physician. Sushil Bora, Dr Surendranath Bora and Kunjalata Bordolois son, is now living at Dibrugarh as a retired Superintendent of Assam Police, Roy wrote to Hazarika.

 Hazarika said, Lt Col Bora served in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Madras Province, and as Civil Surgeon in the Naga Hills, at Guwahati, Tezpur and Silchar. At Silchar he was in dual charge of the Civil Surgeon and Jail Superintendent. After his retirement he moved to Calcutta for his childrens education. Hazarika said that Bora had married a Christian girl while in Naga Hills (now Nagaland). 
 Bora had a bungalow in Calcutta (now Kolkata) known as Borah villa. It has fallen to the hands of the vagrants, said Rahul Roy.

 Hazarika said, Lt Col Bora had donated a plot of his land for the establishment of the citys Navagraha crematorium. He also owned a tea estate at Raraiya near Jorhat.
  Rahul Roy is willing to finance a research project on Bora. He has written to Hazarika,  Lt Col Bora rose from nowhere to conquer his destiny. In my humble way, I have also in life risen from nowhere to become the youngest ever president of a major professional institute in the world. I am reputed within my community 
 I feel that this was only possible because of the blood of great people like Lt Col Sivaram Borah and others in my veins. I will love to resurrect his memory at least in the mind of the Assamese people whom he loved so much

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