Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa

Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa (born 1944) was the Governor of Arunachal Pradesh, a state in northeast India, served August 2016.

A retired Indian Administrative Service officer of the 1968 batch, he ended his career as Chief Secretary of Assam.

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.

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.