[chottala.com] Bangla speaking peasants in Assam [background]:

Dear All

 

As a matter of fact Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan became  Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan

Bhasani due his leadership in the struggle of Bangali settler-pleasants in Bashan Chor

in the Dhubri district in Assam. ....... "From Tangail he moved to Ghagmara in Assam in the

late 1930s to defend the interests of Bangali settlers there. He made his debut as a leader

at Bhasan Char on the brahmaputra where he constructed an embankment with the

co-operation of the Bangali settlers, thereby saving the peasants from the scourge of

annual inundation. Relieved of the recurring floods the local people fondly started to call

him Bhasani Saheb, an epithet by which the Maulana has been known from then on.

 

The Assam government made a law restricting Bangali settlement beyond a certain geographical line,an arbitrary settlement which severely affected the interests of the Bangali colonisers. Protected by this restrictive law the locals had launched a movement to oust the Bangali settlers across the so-called line. In 1937 Bhasani joined the Muslim League and became president of Assam unit of the party. On the 'line' issue, hostile relations developed between the Maulana and the Assam Chief Minister, Sir Muhammad Sa'dullah. At partition, Maulana Bhasani was in Goalpara district (Assam) organising the farmers against the line system. [[Bongal Kheda - drive away the Banglees from Assam]  He was arrested by the government of Assam, and released towards the end of 1947 on condition that he would leave Assam for good........"

[http://banglapedia.search.com.bd/HT/B_0464.htm ]

Also see:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notun_bangladesh/message/13310

 

Thanks

Syed Aslam

PS Your contention about RAW initiated propaganda about Udalguri tumoil is totally a B/S. Assam has a long history of "Bongal Kheda" politics. The political opportunism and communalism has always resorted to secterian violence. Sporadic violences on Bihari settelers .have also been in the news in recent years:

 

Bihari settlers killed in Assam:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3281791.stm

[Assam] Assam burns again like 1983 !! [message #5255] AssamNet, India - Oct 5, 2008 Large Bihari and the old immigrants also killed now.Sorrowfully the administration might have fully aware of such underground incidents, but election ...

 

 On10/10/08,mohiuddin@... mohiuddin@...> wrote

 

Mr. Syed Aslam,

Many thanks to you for correcting my opinion. I did not know those so called Bangladesh migrants migrated to undivided India  during the British Raj and before partition and Bangladesh's birth. As concerened Bangladeshi we must resist this RAW initiated propaganda war against our motherland Bangladesh.Unfortunaty pro-Indians(Bharoter Dalal) of Bangladesh reamined silent about this massacre.

Sincerely,

M.Anwar

On 10/9/08, Syed Aslam <syed.aslam3@...> wrote:

Dear All

 

The so-called "illegal Bangladeshis" in Asasam are not Bangladeshis at all. Many of them may have origin in current Bangladesh and have started their settlement in Assam during British period, and definitely before the birth of Bangladesh. All of these so-called "illegal Bangladeshis" are Indian citizens [mostly Bangla speaking].

 

The Udalguri is situated in Assam, India, its geographical coordinates are 27° 33' 0" North, 95° 15' 0" East , about  200 Km north-east of Bangladesh border. Earlier, Udalgiri was a sub-divisional headquarters in Darrang District [see map]

 

After signing of Bodo Accord to end the demand for a Separate Bodoland State, An Autonomous District called Bodoland Territorial Autonomous District (BTAD) was created and Udalguri district became one of the four Districts under BTAD.  This district is bounded by Bhutan and West Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh state in the north, Sonitpur district in the east, Darrang district in the south and Baksa district in the west.

 

See Assam map [Udalguri is situated in the Darrang district ]

 

About the current turmoil and killings in Udalguri, one commentator has put

"It's two oppressed communities of the state are fighting and the elites are
  enjoying to instigate them".......

 

The Bangla speaking people of Udalguri are Indian citizens and at it's

worst can be called Neo-Assamese. Mr. Mohiuddin Anwar is requested to do some

home work before making illogical comments and putting forward his communal slant.

 

 

 

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