Debraj Roy College came into being in the wake of independence of the country around 1949. In the post independence period, there was a surging atmosphere of great joy and excitement all over the country and this tempo was also felt in an isolated and sleepy town like Golaghat.

There was a craze for higher education among all sections of the people, particularly the students. At that time, there was only one college at Jorhat for the upper Assam region. Higher education was out of reach for the general students of this educationally backward district. This consideration led some spiriled persons of the district to establish a college at Golaghat. This premier institutions of higher education may be regarded as the brain child of Ajyodhya Prasad Goswami, who was then a student leader, Sankar Ch. Baruah, a leader of the freedom movement, Golap Ch. Goswami, Dr. Promodaviram Das, Jadunath Saikia etc. The college was finally 'started' on 1st September, 1949, at the premises of Govt. Bezbarooah High School (now a Higher Secondary School) and then shifted to mission compound and was known as Golaghat College and affiliated to Guwahati University. Continue...>>