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Bengali Hindus in Assam

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2019, the Assam's peasant organisation Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) claimed that there are around 2 million Bangladeshi Hindus in Assam who would become Indian citizens if the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill is passed. BJP, however claimed that only eight lakh Hindu Bangladeshis will get citizenship. The number of Hindu immigrants from Bangladesh in
606:) around him and gave grants of land to some of them, but the population resembled that of the North Cachar Hills of today as evident from various historical chronicles and sources. The British Annexation of Cachar transformed the demographic patterns of the valley overnight. There was a sudden phenomenal growth in population, while the plains of 1654:"The population of Lower and Upper Cachar was estimated at around 60,000. In Upper Cachar Cacharis, Kookees, Aooloongs, and Nagas were recorded. The inhabitants of Lower Cachar was predominantly Cacharis and Bengali Muslims (descendants of immigrants). There were also Kookees, Manipuris, and Nagas there." ( 1557:"The population of Lower and Upper Cachar was estimated at around 60,000. In Upper Cachar Cacharis, Kookees, Aooloongs, and Nagas were recorded. The inhabitants of Lower Cachar was predominantly Cacharis and Bengali Muslims (descendants of immigrants). There were also Kookees, Manipuris, and Nagas there." ( 1198:
Bengali Hindus control around half of the state's business. Most of the sweets store, jewellery businesses, books stores and cosmetic stores are owned by them. Many of the well known teachers, accountants, engineers, high level officials and government employees are from the community. A few of them
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movement (which literally means drive out Bengalis) was happened in the late 1948-80s, where several thousands of Hindu Bengalis was massacred by jingoists Assamese nationalists mob in various parts of Assam and as a result of this jingoist movement, nearly 5 lakh Bengali Hindus were forced to flee
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in 1947 there were large scale Bengali migration into Assam. Between the period of first patches (1946-1951), around 274,455 Bengali Hindu refugees have arrived from what is now called Bangladesh (former East Pakistan) in various locations of Assam as permanent settlers and again in second patches
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is concerned in the state, 40 lakhs names have been kept out from the second draft of NRC, out of which 12 lakhs were Bengali Hindus. The CAA bill which was passed at 2019 December have promised to give citizenship to Bengali refugees living in the state living in Assam prior to 1971. In January
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was largely uneducated, lacked experience, and had not been exposed to western english education, unlike the Bengali Hindus, who were regarded as educated, experienced and well-versed in western english education due to their earlier exposure to it, thus making them more favorable and desirable
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Assam has a large Bengali Hindu population as per as estimation research, but various sources have varied estimation of Bengali Hindu population in Assam, as the census of India, does not allow religious segregation of languages spoken, it is very difficult to arrive at official estimates of a
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had about 50,000 inhabitants in all in 1837 A.D. that is five years after its annexation. The population rose to more than five lakhs a few years later, which eventually indicates that there was a large-scale immigration. For instance in the 1851 Census, the population of the Cachar Valley was
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is the proposed capital of Barak state. Barak valley is the most neglected part of Assam in terms of its infrastructure development, tourism sector, educational institutions, hospitals, IT industries, G.D.P, H.D.I etc. which is still lagging behind in comparison to the Assam's mainland
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in the first phase. This influx served to fill various roles within the colonial administration, including administrative workers, court officials, bankers, railway employees, businessmen, and bureaucrats. This was because, during that time, the
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policy in the state as according to Sudip Sarma, the publicity secretary of the Assam unit of the Nikhil Bharat Bangali Udbastu Samanway Samiti, there are 6 lakh Bengali Hindu D voters in the state. Thousands of Bengalis are being held in
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many Bengali Hindus have poured into Assam as refugees and the number of Hindu migrants in the state rose to 1,068,455 in 1968 (sharply after 4 years of the riot). The fourth patches numbering around 347,555 have just arrived after
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Bangali Hindus are being targeted by xenophobic Assamese nationalist organization and political party from time to time. In the context of linguistic politics in Assam, Bengalis are discriminatively tagged as
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region, there is no real data for Bengali Hindu population available through census, but it is just assumed that region Brahmaputra valley have around "40 Lakh Bengali Hindus" as per as New president of the
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Shin, Jae-Eun (2020). "Descending from demons, ascending to kshatriyas: Genealogical claims and political process in pre-modern Northeast India, The Chutiyas and the Dimasas".
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region where they a form a slide majority and the population of Bengali Hindus in Barak Valley is 20 lakh, constituting 50% of the total population of the region.
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tribe, under the rule of the Kachari Raja, who have established his kingdom's capital at Khaspur, Cachar plains. He had a good number of Bengali advisers (mostly
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between (1952-1958) of the same decade, around 212,545 Bengali Hindus from Bangladesh took shelter in various parts of the state permanently. After the
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mandatory in the secondary education curriculum. On 19 May 1961, eleven Bengali protesters were killed by Assam police fired on a demonstration at the
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has varied estimates. According to the Assam government, 1.3-1.5 lakh such people residing in the Barak Valley are eligible for citizenship if the
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in Assam is mainly influenced by a hybrid mixture of Assamese-Bengali culture and traditions. Bengalis specially living in Assamese-dominated
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region, where they were historically a minority, and now are politically, economically and socially dominant. Assam hosts the second-largest
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region of Assam, violence broke out in 1960 and 1961 between Bengali Hindus and ethnic Assam police over a state bill which would have made
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India (1951). "Annual Arrival of Refugees in Assam in 1946–1951". Census of India. XII, Part I (I-A): 353 – via web.archive.org.
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religious-linguistic matrix for the Assam state. It has been said that Bengali Hindus are the third largest community in
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live in Assam as of 2011, majority of whom live in Barak Valley and a significant population also resides in mainland
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demanded a separate state for themselves within the Bengali majority areas of Assam, particularly Bengali majority
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which have access to all of those facilities mentioned above. In fact, the Southern most region of Assam that is
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candidates for various roles within the colonial administration set up. Bengali Hindus migrated during the
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have an overwhelming Bengali majority population of about (80.8%) as per 2011 census report respectively.
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of Bangladesh rather than Assam. Many in Barak Valley express a desire for greater autonomy or even
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Number of Bengali Hindus residing in Assam (2010-2019 est. research by various agencies)
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Founding an Empire on India's Northeast Frontiers 1790–1840: Climate, Commerce, Polity
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as their 2nd language and have got assimilated into mainstream Assamese society as "
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of 1971 as refugees and most have decided to stay back in Assam afterwards.
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recorded at 85,522, comprising diverse backgrounds including hill tribes.
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from Assam to take shelter in neighbouring West Bengal particularly in
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encouraged the mass emigration of Bengali Hindus into Assam's mainland
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of 1971 as refugees, in the second and third phases respectively.
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following attacks from radical Assamese nationalist mobs and the
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India Against Itself: Assam and the Politics of Nationality
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Claimed by The All Assam Bengali Hindu Association (AABHA)
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is linguistic, while Bengali as an ethnic is considered as
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Confusion, hope run high among Assam's Hindu Bengalis.
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division in seek for safety. In the Bengali dominated
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Claimed by Assam Bengali Hindu organization (ABHO).
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region of Assam comprising the present districts of
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Index

Bengalis

Durga Puja
Assam
Brahmaputra Valley
Barak Valley
Bengali
its dialects
Assamese
Sanskrit
Hinduism
Shaktism
Vaishnavism
Shaivism
Bengali Hindus
Assamese Hindus
a series
Hinduism in India
History
Indus Valley Civilisation
Historical Vedic religion
Vedic period
Indo-Aryan migrations
Gupta Empire
Sanskritisation
Greater India
Maratha Empire
Late-Classical Hinduism
Bhakti movement
Bengal Renaissance

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