1. Shakespeare had famously said in his immortal creation ‘Romeo and Juliet’:-

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”

2. However, the issue raised in this writ petition is quite mundane, far removed from the realm of prose and poetry.

3. Petitioners are aggrieved by naming of their village as Rangchalia Kathabari instead of Kathabari.

4. According to the petitioners, Kathabari is a cadastral village comprising a part of revenue village Mazgaon in the district of Sonitpur, Assam as would be evident from the revenue records relating to settlement operation of 1934. It is stated that all along the village was known as Kathabari which would be evident from the electoral rolls and revenue records. However, a group of people migrated to the village from Rangchalia under Bihali constituency and settled down in Kathabari village. One person out of the said group later on became the village Headman, i.e. Gaonburah and from that time onwards, Gaonburah and the other persons started prefixing the name Rangchaliato the name Kathabari, thus referring to the village as Rangchalia Kathabari. Even election department also changed the name of the vi