About Us Cotton University is a premier institute of higher learning in Assam Formerly known as Cotton College the institute was established in by Sir Henry Stedman Cotton the Chief Commissioner of the erstwhile British province of Assam It became a constituent college of Gauhati University in The college had been the centre of the freedom movement as well as numerous literary and cultural engagements of the state that cemented Assam rsquo s status as an integral component of India In the Cotton College State University was established vide an Act of the Government of Assam with the college as a constituent Cotton University came into being in via The Cotton University Act that enabled the unification of Cotton College State University and Cotton College As per demands of the public Manick Chandra Baruah wrote a letter in to the British government to open a college in Guwahati as Assam was the only Read More