Bongal Kheda

Bongal Kheda refers to an organised campaign of ethnic cleansing of the Bengalis in the North East, that originated in the Brahmaputra Valley of Assam during the 1960s and 1970s and spread to Meghalaya and Tripura in the 1980s. During its peak in 1960, around 50,000 Bengali were expelled from Assam, who took shelter in West Bengal.

Movement against the Bengali Hindus in Assam, India Bongal Kheda was a xenophobic movement in India, which aimed at purging out non-native job competitors by the job-seeking Assamese . Soon after the Independence of India , the Assamese Hindu middle class gained political control in Assam and tried to gain social and economic parity with their competitors, the Bengali Hindu middle class. A significant period of property damage, ethnic policing and even instances of street violence occurred in the region. The exact timeline is disputed, though many authors agree the 1960s saw a height of disruption. It was part of a broader discontent within Assam that would foreshadow the Assamese Language Movement and the greater Assam Movement . It does not refer to Bengalis alone. The Deadly Ethnic Riot . "The movement known as Bongal Kheda sponsored by Assamese job-seekers to drive out non-Assamese competitors." ( Chakravarti 1960 :1193) Banerjee, Paula; Chaudhury, Sabyasachi Basu Ray; Das, Samir Kumar; Adhikari, Bishnu (2005). They used that control to assert the paramountcy of Assamese cultural identity and to seek economic and social equality in relation to the Bengali Hindu middle classes-their rivals for jobs in the administrative services, in the professions, and in the private sector." ( Weiner 1983 :284) Bijay Kumar, Dhar (31 July 2015). এনআরসি আরও একটি পৃথক রাজ্যের দাবিকে উস্কে না দেয় .

Assam has long been anti-Bengali and after the Independence of India , the Assamese Hindu middle class gained political control in Assam and tried to gain social and economic parity with their competitors, the Bengali Hindu middle class. A significant period of property damage, ethnic policing and even instances of street violence occurred in the region. The exact timeline is disputed, though many authors agree the 1960s saw a height of disruption. It was part of a broader discontent within Assam that would foreshadow the Assamese Language Movement and the anti-Bangladeshi Assam Movement . "The movement known as Bongal Kheda sponsored by Assamese job-seekers to drive out non-Assamese competitors." ( Chakravarti 1960 :1193) Bhaumik, Subir (1 January 2000). They used that control to assert the paramountcy of Assamese cultural identity and to seek economic and social equality in relation to the Bengali Hindu middle classes-their rivals for jobs in the administrative services, in the professions, and in the private sector." ( Weiner 1983 :284) Bijay Kumar, Dhar (31 July 2015). এনআরসি আরও একটি পৃথক রাজ্যের দাবিকে উস্কে না দেয় .