Family Tree

The Guha Family Tree
prepared Jan 1 2003
updated Dec 31 2004
List of Forefathers (Guha family)
Forefather
No.
Name
22
1
Birat Guha
21
2
Naranarayan Guha
20
3
Dasakarma Guha
19
4
Bharat Guha
18
5
Pitambar Guha
17
6
¿ Guha
16
7
Tapan
15
8
Shankar
14
9
¿ Guha
13
10
Narapati Guha
12
11
Raghab Guha
11
12
Narayan Guha
10
13
Bipradas Guha
9
14
Narahari Guha
8
15
Rajib Guha
7
16
Krisha--- Guha
6
17
Mahadev Guha
5
18
Ram--- Guha
4
19
Ramshankar Guha
3
20
Rajkrishna Guha
2
21
Kalachand Guha
1
22
Hari Mohan Guha
0
Surendra Mohan Guha [1895-1946] (+ Subarna Prava) à
- Bhabendra Mohan Guha
- Nikhilendra Mohon Guha
- Lilabati [Guha] Basu
- Amarendra Mohon Guha
- Nirmalendra Mohon Guha
- Madhabendra Mohon Guha (12 Sep 1930 – 30 Aug 2000)
- Manabendra Mohon Guha
Source: Transcribed from Mejo-jatha-mashay’s hand written manuscript.
(Note: Couldn't read names of 5th, 7th, 14th and 17th forefathers above).
Signed: A. M. Guha (07 Aug 2002).

The Guha Family Tree
prepared Jan 1 2005
… Kalachand Guha à Hari Mohan Guha
à Surendra Mohan Guha (+ Subarna Prava Guha) è
Surendra Mohan Guha (Bena) &
Subarna Prava (Kalidasi) Guha
Bhabendra Mohan Guha (Sambhu)
& Manju (Khela)
Debasish (Kalibabu) & Keka
Subhajit
(Munai)
&
Nikita
(Tutul)
Indrajit
(Runai)
Nikhikendra Mohan Guha (Bachu)
& Gouri
Kallol (Chutku)
& Sumi
Kabir (Kush)
Kuntal (Bulu)
& Ranjwa (Manu)
Sujasha (Tiyan)
Sudotra (Tirtha)

Surendra Mohan Guha &
Subarna Prava Guha
Amarendra Mohan Guha (Ranjit)
& Mira (Chabi)
Goutam (Barku)
& Anjali (Anju)
Sidharth (Rubul)
& Saroj (Dimpi)
Dhruba (Rithik)
Dhanik (Tintin)

Surendra Mohan Guha &
Subarna Prava Guha
Nirmalendra Mohan Guha (Sankar)
& Manju (Mita)
Sharmi (Rawni) [Guha] Kaw
& Kishen Kaw
Rita Guha
&
?
Debajit (Bappa) Guha
& Ranjana (Rakhi)
Prisha

Surendra Mohan Guha &
Subarna Prava Guha
Madhabendra Mohan Guha (Madhab)
& Parul Rani (Seema)
Amitabha (Babun) Guha
& Barnali (Mini)
Roumen (Josh)
Nov 21 1995
Anjan (Krish)
July 23 1998
Jayanta (Joy) Guha
& Aparna (Tumpa)
Rianka (Ria)
Dec 3 2002
Anisha (Dia)
Mar 5 2004
Rathindra (Rathin) Guha
& Debamitra (Bibi)
Ramit
Mar 3 2001
Reeth
June 24 2004
Rabindra (Rabin) Guha
& Soumi
Raina
July 12 2004

Surendra Mohan Guha &
Subarna Prava Guha
Manabendra Mohan Guha (Khuku)
& Gitashri
Debamitra (Jhilmil)
Lia
Bhaskar (Deep)

Surendra Mohan Guha &
Subarna Prava Guha
Lilabati (Lilu) [Guha] Basu
& Pramatha Nath Basu
Gopa (Basu) GuhaRoy
& Dipankar GuhaRoy
Mimi GuhaRoy
Rahul GuhaRoy
Partha Basu
& Kum Kum
Pratik (Jit) Basu
Avik (Joy) Basu
Sanghamitra (Dulu) Basu

The Guha Family (descendents of M. M. Guha)
Madhabendra Mohan Guha (Madhab)
12 Sep 1930 – 30 Aug 2000
Amitabha (Babun) Guha
12 Feb 1965
& Barnali (Mini) Roy
31 Oct 1968
Roumen (Josh) Guha
Nov 21 1995
& Parul Rani (Seema) Paul
7 Apr 1937
Anjan (Krish) Guha
July 23 1998
Jayanta (Joy) Guha
7 Dec 1967
& Aparna (Tumpa) Chatterjee
14 Dec 1970
Rianka (Ria) Guha
Dec 3 2002
Anisha (Dia) Guha
Mar 5 2004
Rathindra (Rathin) Guha
14 Apr 1971
& Debamitra (Bibi) Sarkar
9 Jul 1976
Ramit Guha
Mar 3 2001
Reeth Guha
June 24 2004
Rabindra (Rabin) Guha
14 Apr 1971
& Soumi Mukherjee
11 Feb 1978
Raina Guha
July 12 2004
Updated – Dec 31 2004.

Dr M. M. Guha (Sept 12 1930 - Aug 30 2000)
Madhabendra Mohan Guha was born in Bengal on Sept 12 1930 in then British India (now Bangladesh). After partition and Indian independence in 1947, his Hindu family relocated to Calcutta in Bengal India. Having lost both his parents at a very young age his 4 elder siblings who had to stop their education to work, educated him and his younger brother. On finishing school he got admission into St Xaviers College in Calcutta and subsequently into India’s prestigious agricultural university – Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) in Delhi.
Then starts his life in Malaysia …
His Malaysian story began when he came to pre-independence Malaya in 1957 at the request of the Colonial Government in Malaya – as part of the process to bring in professionals from the region to replace the British Research Officers in the Rubber Research Institute of Malaysia (RRIM) and other Malaysian institutes / departments who would be leaving in a phased manner once “Malaysia” achieved independence in 1957.
He was a post-grad student then at IARI (Indian Agricultural Research Institute) completing his masters degree programme when his supervising professor told him about a request to the institute from the Colonial Government in Malaya for sourcing agricultural professionals to staff RRIM. Guha applied and got an offer which he took up a few months later. That’s the start of his life in M’sia - in 1957 at age 25.
The RRIM he joined as a young research officer in 1957 was a period when the institute was at its intellectual peak when a lot of fundamental research papers and information was generated. He worked under Dr George Watson, in the Soils Division. He also interacted with the likes of scientists such as the late Dr Bolle-Jones and Dr Bateman there.
After a few years – after independence, RRIM funded his doctorate studies in the UK at Scotlands Aberdeen’s University’s McCaulay Institute of Land Sciences. The spectrophotometer (as we know it now) was then just invented at McCaulay Institute in a very crude form to analyze plant nutrients in both plant tissues and in soil matter. Dr Guha recalled how they used to burn leaf tissues and channel the burning flame’s light through a prism to separate out the beams of the various chemical elements for measurement of wavelength and intensity. In this way they first identified the element and then quantified the amount / concentrations. His future wife at the time, Parul who accompanied him to the UK for her studies (and also to presumably keep him company in the Scottish winters!) recalled how she got bored seeing him put sample after sample through the flames – after trekking into the forests to first collect soil and leaf samples. This endeavour at that period was pioneering work in the UK and USA – to analyze plant tissue and soils for plant nutrients and to develop plant nutrient analytical and manuring standards / guidelines for the various plant species.
He returned to Malaysia and the RRIM in 1964 and soon rose to head the Soils Dept. (in addition to raising a family). He enjoyed working and socializing with his colleagues – Dr. B. C. Shekhar, Dr. Ani Arope, Dr. Sekharan Nair, Dr P.D. Abraham, Dr. Mohinder Singh and many others. During this period, the soils of Malaysia were mapped and Dr Guha started up the soils and plant tissue analytical chemistry labs. He carried out the basic research for the nutrition of Hevea brasiliensis coming up with the leaf analysis standards for its nutrition – the first for a crop species in Asia. As the commercial rubber plantations routinely began to practice scientific nutrient management of their plantings the agro-advisory services of the institute began to grow. It flourished to the extent that the plantation owners asked Dr Guha to set up his own agri-services outfit to service them – and they would advance the capital to do so!
Well, he had already enlarged the family to include four boys by now (Amitabha, Jayanta, Rathindra and Rabindra) – so the family work was done and attention could be given elsewhere while the wife was kept busy!
So in 1970, he set up Agricultural Research & Advisory Bureau [ARAB] in the upper floors of a small building in Jalan Ampang – just down the road from RRI’s Jalan Ampang campus. (He loved the people and the intellectual atmosphere at RRI in those days and they often socialized and lived as neighbours). The scientific equipment companies donated all of the lab equipment that he needed to set up the laboratories. He was always grateful for this support and that received from the plantation industry over the years. During this period of the early 1970’s, ARAB actively guided estates in the nutrient management of the soils and plantings and was also instrumental in setting up the Soil and Plant Laboratories at the Marihat Agri-Research Centre in Indonesia and the training of its personnel.
In 1975 ARAB relocated to its current site near Kajang and the agri-services business continued to serve the plantations sector in Malaysia as well as Indonesia and other countries such as PNG, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and others. The 1980’s and 1990’s was a period of very rapid growth in the plantations sector (especially in oil palm) in both Malaysia and Indonesia and Dr Guha and ARAB worked on many such new plantation development schemes – often with development organizations (Asian Development Bank, World Bank) and various country governments. One such project that gave him a lot of satisfaction was that he was able to plant 20,000+ hectares of rubber in the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh under an ADB funded project. It was like he had this one chance to contribute in some significant way to the land of his birth. I remember him checking umpteenth number of times on the rubber budwoods at Bangkok’s airport before the planting materials were airfreighted to Bangladesh.
Some of the works done at ARAB such as the development of a patented method in the early 1990’s to stimulate latex flow in Hevea using the direct application of ethylene gas have resulted in significant increases in rubber yield productivity. With the advent of the computers in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, ARAB under his leadership developed computer databases to track all agro-tech and management data on oil palm and rubber plantings and the plantations. Research information was integrated into these database systems in the form of agro-tech algorithms to process and analyze these data into information for basing actionable management actions. These software systems helped ARAB Agronomists to service large client hectarages of both oil palm and rubber. He was also very gratified to see that many of the young Agronomists who started their early careers with him at ARAB have gone on to play important roles in the plantation industry.
Dr Guha loved meeting new peoples in the various countries that his work took him. And he loved to see fields of plantings growing healthily and how such agri based rural development had contributed to the wellbeing of rural communities. On returning home after field visits, it was not uncommon for him to tell the family about the great food and hospitality of the planters whose estates he had just visited - not to mention the late night whiskey drinking and chit chat sessions in those managers’ huge colonial bungalows! And like most planters, he brought home whatever fruits were in season. He always felt fortunate that through the projects and people he was involved with both in the industry as well as organizations such as the ADB and FAO / World Bank, he could contribute to agri development in many countries around the world.
Never having felt the need to retire from something he loved and was passionate about, he actively ran ARAB till his passing on Aug 30 2000 just shy of his 70th birthday.
The plantation industry was still healthy then and continues to grow and as planters say…
an old planter never dies – he just goes to seed and regrows !
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