The complex relationship between how immigrants were once welcomed to the current state of resentment needs to be sorted for Assam's future.
Tag: <span>illegal immigration</span>
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Immigrants were once welcomed in Assam – Part 2
Immigrants from current Bangladesh were invited during the colonial though things changed rapidly as we approached the partition and beyond.
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Immigrants were once welcomed in Assam – Part 1
Sentiments involving immigrants from Bengal into Assam have ebbed and flowed as time has gone by.
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Islam and birth control
While popular Islamic thinking dictates birth control as a sin, its history is in fact laden with many layers.
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The Muslim birth rate
There is no indication that even one Muslim country will achieve a substantially lower growth rate than India's Hindu community within the next decades.
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Immigration from Bangladesh
Simmering communal tension in some of the border areas is one of the manifestations of the effects of large-scale illegal migration of Bangladeshi nationals who have slowly displaced or dispossessed the local population.