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	assam rifles -- lies
		Regarding the rejoinder’s remark that the Assam Rifles does not indulge in petty matters of state level politics, Das wondered whether it is more interested in national and international politics.
		He also said, just like the Assam Rifles, jawans of other forces like the BSF, CRPF, TSR and state police have been carrying out their patriotic duty and sacrificing their lives.
		It will be noted that the news of the secret meeting of two Assam Rifles officers, Brigadier Satyendra Kumar and Colonel Amit Sharma, with political leaders, had appeared in several local and outside newspapers.
	www.cpim.org /pd/2002/march03/03032002_tripura.htm

	POLITICS OF INFILTRATION - A Threat to Socio-cultural Identity of Assam?
		Besides, a large number of such foreigners were appeased with political rights by entering their names in the voters' list of the state for petty political games at the instance of the vested political forces that were at the helm of affairs since Independence" (Ibid.).
		Due to lack of vision they do not understand the design of the communal politics of the Muslims of Assam and neighbouring
		In the absence of any definite policy of the Government, the infiltration gradually assumed an alarming proportion and the aliens became politically so strong that no political party in this state is in a position to form the government without their support.
	www.saag.org /papers16/paper1557.html (3798 words)

	Bhutan - Political Developments
		Expatriate Nepalese, who resettled in West Bengal and Assam after leaving Bhutan, formed the Bhutan State Congress in 1952 to represent the interests of other expatriates in India as well as the communities they had left behind.
		The political forces that shaped Bhutan after its seventeenth- century unification were primarily internal until the arrival of the British in the eighteenth century.
		Between 2,000 and 12,000 Nepalese were reported to have fled Bhutan in the late 1980s, and according to a 1991 report, even high-level Bhutanese government officials of Nepalese origin had resigned their positions and moved to Nepal.
	countrystudies.us /bhutan/47.htm (1708 words)

	The Assam Tribune online
		Bhutan is such a country with gifted strategic terrain where nothing is possible to do without the knowledge of concerned authority,” Rajkhowa claimed refuting the Bhutan Prime Minister’s assertion that the militants were dealt with utmost patience.
		The ULFA chief alleged that Bhutan arrested and handed over the delegation of NDFB and KLO when they were negotiating formally with the Royal Government of Bhutan just hours before “war was declared”.
		Bhutan did it conspiratorially to maintain ‘surprise’ the shelters of ULFA, NDFB and KLO,” Rajkhowa said.
	www.assamtribune.com /jan0504/at06.html (396 words)

	IBNLive : Bhutan water tax Assam poll issue
		In this tiny hamlet of Assam on the Indo-Bhutan border, it's politics over water that has become an election issue.
		For the last 50 years, nearly 25,000 people of this village have been facing a unique problem: they have to depend on Bhutan for water.
		The voters complain that political leaders have hardly been of any help.
	www.ibnlive.com /article.php?id=7878§ion_id=4 (435 words)

	Women & Politics in South Australia
		She graduated in 1954, was in due course promoted to charge sister, had a year in Assam, India, with the Baptist Overseas Mission, and joined the Department of Aboriginal Affairs in 1967.
		She is an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Nursing in Australia, was Australian of the Year in 1984, and won an 'SA Great' award in 1992.
		Lois says she has tried to avoid 'confrontationist politics', not least because she has never hated white people, and she thinks she has achieved more for the Aboriginal cause by appealing to people's reason: 'Hatred isn't a very healthy emotion.
	www.slsa.sa.gov.au /women_and_politics/abor1.htm (1477 words)

	Results for Assam
		News agency covering politics and culture in North-East the states of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim.
		Personal narrative site on the district, with several pages of photos interspersed with notes, especially on St. Assam 's boys school, for which several Confirmation sets are provided.
		Comprehension data on agriculture, population, economy, education, employment, infrastructure etc of Assam.
	www.wikimoz.org /directorio/search/Assam (1477 words)

	Indo-Asian News Service -> India-Politics/Immigration-Assam -> Bangladeshi infiltration - hot pre-election plank in Assam
		For the AASU, the issue dates back to the early 1980s when Assam was in the grip of a massive anti-foreigner uprising that later saw some of its leaders forming the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), a regional political party that rode to power in 1985 on the anti-Bangladeshi plank.
		Joining the bandwagon of protests against illegal aliens is the influential All Assam Students' Union (AASU), besides political parties of all hues, particularly the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
		The BJP even accuses the ruling Congress government in Assam of encouraging Bangladeshi migrants for vote bank politics.
	www.eians.com /stories/2005/06/14/14pos.shtml (554 words)

	Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies
		In Assam today, there obtains a complex situation in which the political goal against illegal immigration is lost in rhetoric, which in turn, has led to the communalisation of society.
		f the two politics in Assam on this issue, one, of political parties and second, of civil society, the former has tried constantly to render the other impossible.
		In the break up of electoral constituencies, communal collectives with a minority status in the overall scenario might actually turn out to be the more powerful political majority in connivance with sections of the majority community.
	www.ipcs.org /ipcs/whatsNewArticle1.jsp?action=showView&kValue=1781&status=article&mod=b (803 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Nation
		The Congress, which has been a waning force in the state politics, will now be major factor in the making to the mayoral office in Calcutta.
		Mr Anil Biswas of the CPM claimed the front had secured 62 wards and 54 by the Trinamool Congress, 15 Congress (I), four BJP and the remaining six by independent.
		The Railway Minister, however, claimed that they had won in 64 and the Left Front in 62, BJP four, Congress12 and in the remaining seats the independent candidates supported by the Trinamool Congress were elected.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2000/20000630/nation.htm (4636 words)

	POLITICS OF INFILTRATION - A Threat to Socio-cultural Identity of Assam?
		Muslim populations in Assam considerably decreased in 1947 partly due to inclusion of Sylhet in Pakistan and also return of sizeable number of earlier immigrants to their original land due to fear of backlash.
		The people belonging to Bengali descent apprehended a danger to their deportation following the Assam Accord but thanks to Muslim lobby, the process of detection, deletion and deportation remained as slow as it was before the Accord.
		Besides, a large number of such foreigners were appeased with political rights by entering their names in the voters' list of the state for petty political games at the instance of the vested political forces that were at the helm of affairs since Independence" (Ibid.).
	www.saag.org /papers16/paper1557.html (3798 words)

	Amazon.com: India Against Itself: Assam and the Politics of Nationality (Critical Histories Series): Books: Sanjib Baruah
		I learned a great deal about the socio-economic history of Assam and how the current political strife developed out of this history and the relationship - or lack of relationship one could say - between Assam and the rest of India.
		If read superfically, one can easily make the erroneus assumption that the author is advocating for autonomy of Assam and that his sympathies lie with the insurgents.
		Baruah has written an excellent monograph on the political turmoil in Assam and other parts of Northeast India.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/081223491X?v=glance (933 words)

	Natives and aliens
		The unfortunate part of the story is that both the mainstream parties as well as those parties and groups who project themselves as the saviours of the religious and linguistic minority communities in Assam are surviving on the politics of citizenship.
		The Assam Police has recently swung into action, serving quit India notices on people in the state who are said to be illegal Bangladeshi/East Pakistani migrants.
		The Accord demands that illegal migrants from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) who had arrived the state between 1966 to 1971 must register their names with the FRRO so that they can be debarred from their voting rights for ten years from the date of detection.
	www.assam.org /2000/6/natives_and_aliens.htm (672 words)

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		Tribal Welfare and Development : Emerging-Role of Anthropological Explorations / Sharma, A.N. Tribals Under The Jawahar Rojgar Yojna (or Jawahar Employment Scheme) / Singh, A.K. Tribes and Castes of Assam / Sen, Shipra
		Travels and Adventures in the Province of Assam : During a Residence of Fourteen Years / Butler, John
		Tribal Movement, Politics and Religion in India, 3 Vols.
	www.easternbookcorporation.com /anthsearch.asp (672 words)

	The Agrarian History of South Asia: A Bibliographic Essay
		As shown by B.S.Baviskar, The Politics of Development: Sugar Co-Operatives in Rural Maharashtra (Delhi: 1980) and reiterated recently during Indian elections, the sugar sector has become as much a dominant feature of the agro-politics of Maharashtra as caste war is in Bihar and revolution is in Telengana.
		On Assam, see H.H.Rafiabadi, Assam From Agitation to Accord (New Delhi: 1988); Ajeya Sarkar, Regionalism State and the Emerging Political Pattern in India (Calcutta: 1990); and Amalendu Guha, Planter Raj to Swaraj: Freedom Movement and Electoral Politics in Assam, 1826-1947 (New Delhi: 1977).
		On Uttar Pradesh and Haryana, see Zoya Hasan, Dominance and Mobilisation: Rural Politics In Western Uttar Pradesh 1930- 1980 (New Delhi: 1989); A.B.Mukerji, The Chamars of Uttar Pradesh: A Study in Social Geography (Delhi: 1980); Walter C.
	www.sas.upenn.edu /~dludden/bibessay.htm (672 words)

	MANIPUR- in a strange whirlpool of Cross-Current Insurgency
		Indo-Burma Revolutionary Front comprising of various Northeast ethnic insurgent groups including ULFA of Assam, NCSN (K) of Nagas and KNA of Kukis was also formed in 1990 though, it failed to make any significant dent in the movement.
		Chaliha (then Chief Minister of Assam) doing as he did from the days of freedom struggle, was governed by the value of that time.
		Gen. (Retd) S.K.Sinha, PVSM, Governor of Jammu and Kashmir in his foreword in ACDIS (Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security) Paper written by Jaideep Saikia quoted B.K.Nehru, Governor of Assam in late sixties saying: "The East Bengal Muslim was the main vote bank of the Congress party in Assam.
	www.saag.org /papers13/paper1210.html (672 words)

	Congress projects Tarun Gogoi as chief ministerial candidate
		"Tarun Gogoi is the undisputed leader of our party and he is going to be the next chief minister of Assam," said Silvius Condpan, leader of the opposition in the state assembly, who incidentally senior to Gogoi in state politics.
		Guwahati, March 26: The Congress party has decided to project Tarun Gogoi, president of the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) as its candidate for the post of chief minister of the state in the forthcoming assembly elections in Assam.
		He is known to have always opposed the policies of Hiteswar Saikia, two-times Congress chief minister of Assam, but had always carefully refrained from passing any remark against him.
	www.indianexpress.com /ie/daily/20010328/ina28036.html (672 words)

	MANIPUR- in a strange whirlpool of Cross-Current Insurgency
		The Nagas of Manipur were supporting the movement of National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) demanding a sovereign 'Nagalim' (greater Nagaland) including the Naga inhabited territory of Assam, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh and Burma.
		Gen. (Retd) S.K.Sinha, PVSM, Governor of Jammu and Kashmir in his foreword in ACDIS (Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security) Paper written by Jaideep Saikia quoted B.K.Nehru, Governor of Assam in late sixties saying: "The East Bengal Muslim was the main vote bank of the Congress party in Assam.
		Chaliha (then Chief Minister of Assam) doing as he did from the days of freedom struggle, was governed by the value of that time.
	www.saag.org /papers13/paper1210.html (672 words)

	Welcome to Bodoland - Bodo Sahitya Sabha
		Moreover, almost all the intellectuals of the state of Assam, say, pure academicians, educationists and writers, who have no connection with the power politics and free from narrow partialism are in favour of retention of English medium in Colleges and Universities in the state.
		For example, the Bodo Sahitya Sabha has already submitted separate memoranda demanding for retention of English medium in Assam Universities, to the Prime Minister of India at Shillong on 8th November'72, the Governor of Assam at Shillong on 9th November'72, and Chief Minister of Assam at Shillong on 9th November'72.
		The view-points of the Bodo Sahitya Sabha are very clear that we, the Bodos are not at all against the language of any community or group, being medium of instruction of University, rather we welcome it.
	www.bodoland.org /sahitya4.htm (672 words)

	Guwahati on Encyclopedia.com
		An girl, injured in a blast, is treated by a doctor in a hospital in Guwahati, the capital city of Indias north-eastern state of Assam, 18 March 2006.
		A person injured in a blast at an oil refinery is treated at the Guwahati Refinery Hospital in Guwahati, the capital city of Indias northeastern state of Assam, 20 January 2006.
		Communist Party of India (CPI(M)) General Secretary, Prakash Karat addresses a public rally in Guwahati, in the Indian northeastern state of Assam, 12 February 2006.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/G/Guwahati.asp (956 words)

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	www.ecoi.net /doc/en/IN/content/3/12509-14545 (956 words)

	ecoi.net - Focus countries » India » Politics & Law (United Minorities Front, Assam)
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	Insurgency in North East
		By provoking national and ethnic identities, the Assam agitation has prepared the ground for the rise of militancy in Assam.
		It was the turn of the Tripura National Volunteers two years later to dabble successfully with politics.
		In many respects, Assam is a mini-India with different national, ethnic, religious, linguistic and tribal groups living together in the region since centuries.
	members.tripod.com /israindia/isr/week1/neindia.html (28 words)

	A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE BORO PEOPLE
		The Tribal League, the lone political party of the Plain tribals of Assam, in which the Boro were dominant group, took the matter to the floor of the state Assembly.
		In its attempt to protect tribal land, the Tribal League had an agreement with Muslim League in 1939 wherein the latter agreed to accept the tribal demand for the line system in return to their support to Muslim League in formation of a coalition government of Assam.
		The Boro politics found another lease of life when the British India passed India Act 1935, embodied in it the provision for reserved seats for the plains tribals in the Provincial Assembly, proportionate to their population.
	www.geocities.com /ndfb2001/history.htm (28 words)

	India's Failure in the Northeast4
		Misra’s account of independentist politics in Assam emphasizes the continuities between the ideas held by the first generation of leaders of the Indian National Congress in Assam, of a pan-Indian federation with powerful autonomous states, and the independentist ideas of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA).
		At the time of India’s independence, Assamese leaders, both in the Indian Constituent Assembly and outside, advocated a far stronger form of federalism than what the rest of India was prepared to have.
	www.ceniseas.org /resources/page_san-ne-failure4.html (178 words)

	MANIPUR: Manipur
		North East News Agency - News agency covering politics and culture in North-East the states of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim.
		Revolutionary People's Front of Manipur (RPF) - A brief history of the party, statements and documents, and a collection of photographs.
		India - Calcutta - United States Consulate General in Calcutta, serving Bihar, Orissa, West Bengal, Sikkim, Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
	www.iper1.com /iper1-odp/dove/cerca/Manipur (178 words)

	News 16 August, 2000: Politics
		It may be recalled here that the Assam Government passed the order to implement the Bishnupriya language in the primary stage of education in the state last year but the order has not been implemented in view of the Manipuri government's objection.
		IMPHAL, August 10: The most controversial Bishnupriya issue is likely to hit the state within a short period as the Bishnupriya people residing at Barak Valley of Assam have once again come up with their demand for implementation of "Bishnupriya Manipuri" language in the primary level of education in Assam.
		The June 11 floods in the state which left 26 killed, more than 20,000 cattle dead and hundreds of villagers untraced were reportedly caused due to breach of a dam on the Siang river in China from where it flows into Arunachal.
	nevigil.freeservers.com /16082000p.htm (178 words)

	Vedanti - Back issues - September'2001
		GUWAHATI: Efforts to revive the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), the flag bearer of regional politics in Assam, is on with former Education Minister Brindaban Goswami taking over the post of President of the party.
		In an interview, the Assam Gana Parishad (AGP) Chief, Brindaban Goswami, said that, his party the AGP is on the verge of preparing an action plan for the all-round development of the State.
		However, the NDFB is apparently not in a mood to shift their camps from the territory of the Himalayan kingdom as the chairman of the outfit said that as long as they fight against India and as long as there is open border between Assam and Bhutan, the problem would remain.
	www.vedanti.com /News/Backup/politicalnews9.htm (178 words)

	The Agrarian History of South Asia: A Bibliographic Essay
		On Assam, see H.H.Rafiabadi, Assam From Agitation to Accord (New Delhi: 1988); Ajeya Sarkar, Regionalism State and the Emerging Political Pattern in India (Calcutta: 1990); and Amalendu Guha, Planter Raj to Swaraj: Freedom Movement and Electoral Politics in Assam, 1826-1947 (New Delhi: 1977).
		Current approaches to early modernity in South Asia have emerged from the connected histories of overseas trade, inland economies, agrarian societies, and regional polities, as studies of the eighteenth century have forced a reconsideration of transitions between Mughal and British periods.
		Tuk-Tuk Kumar, History of rice in India: mythology, culture, and agriculture (Delhi: 1988) is a cultural history of one crop.
	www.sas.upenn.edu /~dludden/bibessay.htm (6092 words)

	The Agrarian History of South Asia: A Bibliographic Essay
		On Assam, see H.H.Rafiabadi, Assam From Agitation to Accord (New Delhi: 1988); Ajeya Sarkar, Regionalism State and the Emerging Political Pattern in India (Calcutta: 1990); and Amalendu Guha, Planter Raj to Swaraj: Freedom Movement and Electoral Politics in Assam, 1826-1947 (New Delhi: 1977).
		The Bombay Deccan is very well covered by Sumit Guha, The Agrarian Economy of the Bombay Deccan, 1818-1941 (Delhi: 1985), and see Champaka Lakshmi, Economic Condition of the Peasantry in the Deccan During the Nineteenth Century (Delhi: 1981).
		Mentalities of agrarian subalternity preoccupy Ranajit Guha, Elementary Aspects and many authors in the volumes of Subaltern Studies.
	www.sas.upenn.edu /~dludden/bibessay.htm (6092 words)

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