Also, these bengali speaking Muslims were immigrants from bangladesh who came illegally. It is absolutely not okay why illegal bangladeshis will get a stay in our Assam land!.
Right ,assam is land for only indigenous people not for muslims ,our ancestors fought and defeated islamic rulers but due to congress our assam is still suffering from muslims
There won't be a Mr.Gupta around to write a First Person Second Draft piece when the indigenous people of Assam become a minority in their own homeland. But hopefully ThePrint will be around and some smart guy will go the extra mile to report and write series of articles on the systemic "silent genocide" of indigenous people of Assam.
This is why borders and demographics are important. Where demographics are messed up, there is always scope for violence, especially when things don’t go well economically.
This was a time when I was too young to understand anything . My cousin brother was there in Assam and my parents were very afraid he was a doctor there. My father and uncle always asked him to come back as Bengalies were getting killed . I could not understand then . Today you made everything clear thank you .
So in short Bengali Muslims attacked Assamese Tribals and Hindus. In turn Assamese Hindus and Tribals attacked Bengali Hindus. Then they also attacked Bengali Muslims but the Muslims retaliated so the Tribals killed Assamese Hindus. Somewhere in between you also had Assamese Sikhs and CPRF forces too. What a clusterfuck.
All coz Indira Gandhi wanted to give '4 million immigrants from Bangladesh the right to vote' .. that too during the Assam agitation . People blame Mamta Banerjee but the trend had started decades back
@@dhven9274 BJP wants the same too, reason being most of the migrants in 71 were Bengali Hindus. Bengali Muslims migrated pre partition with British support as the British wanted to turn Assam into Muslim majority for their colonial ambitions as Hindus tended to agitate against the colonial government.
It is completely unfair to speak about Assam agitation when you don't cover how Swahid Anil Bora was killed by the Bengali speaking people...It was all started by the Bengali speaking people......
"You can get quite far in a democracy if you can convince a majority that they are victims of a minority." Garry Kasparov. You guys have been taken for a ride by AASU Xenophobes and all the powers that be and you can't still admit it. You are captives of your own false narratives.
Bangladeshi muxlimz,1st time I've heard an Immigrant population looting land of local population (Assamese) and making them move, than enforcing ethnic violence on local tribes in name of religion. This is why we need NRC in Assam
@@eggytoastthey don't answer this, ever. Assamese people are generally extremely racist. Especially towards Bengalis, while Bengalis outnumber them 50:1, they're very calm level headed people who get called outsiders and Bangladeshis. Bangladesh is basically East Bengal India, Bengalis are more Indians than them. It's the only community in India with most Nobel prizes, your anthem is Bengali. Assamese people need to be better. Don't cry about racism outside when you're racists within
@@eggytoastBangladeshi refugee, you people are the most racist that is the reason you all got kicked out of Bangladesh. You people do hindu muslim every time and fight in the name of religion. We people accepted you on humanitarian ground but you all make anti Assamese statements. Put black color to Assamese banner and posters. Took Cachar from the indigenous people. Kashpur in Cachar was the last capital of Kachari Kingdom and also Koch Rahbonshi. Hindu Bangladeshis are the major threat to indigenous people. Get lost to your place illegal immigrants.
@@grimmywizardWhat Indian you were? Before Independence it was British India and before that it was Bengal ruled for centuries by Muslims invaders since Bhaktiyar Khilji. Assam was an independent kingdom and was under Myanmar before the British got Assam from Myanmar through Yandoboo Treaty in 1826. The British then included Assam with their already captured Bengal for ease of administration. You could not save yourself from Muslim invasion and how dare you compare to us? Our ancestors were able to fight the Muslim invasion and never let them rule us. Therefore we need not to run like refugees to other countries out of fear from Muslims. We will never allow CAA implementation in North East India.
@@eggytoastyou maybe be bengali, but from Bangladesh🇧🇩 not India, people like you are flooding which is a concern for us, Northeast tribals. We don't want another Tripura like situation in the rest Northeast states. We feel for you guys and allow you to dwell with your family, but you people act like owning the land & betray the locals instead & expect us to give you chocolate or sing praises?
hidden? lol the killings of Hindus are the hidden stories. this incident was also result of more than 15000 hindu deaths but he won't mention that. Hindus riots as retaliation, Muslims riotsr because Muhammad's words command them to
@@mayanksingh0044 Not really. I had never heard about it. North east is always "out of sight, out of mind" for most Indians. No media outlet talks about it. No one mentioms it like we mention 1984, 2002 etc.
ONE ISSUE : ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS since then.. Been hearing about these from mother, father, aunt , grandfather .. they were among the sufferers whom lost all their wealth, fortune, and whole lot of themselves during those days. When such discussions happens , all will talk less and try to get away that the extent of violence can be predicted. Got some details through the ep. Thanks Print , Thanks Sir 👍
Do a detailed series of this sort on 1984 Punjab insurgency too! There's alot of material easily accessible about what perspired in the big scheme but only dense academic works on the granular details!! Would love to see more of these sort of 'mini documentary series' by SG
Nehru -Gandhi family's dirty history to hold power ! Indira Gandhi was so desperate that she wanted give '4 million immigrants from Bangladesh the right to vote' .. that too during the Assam agitation . No concern for people, only for power & vested interests
Shekhar has Indira and Sanjay Gandhi's pictures in the background.. which is very appropriate. The 4 disastrous years of Indira Gandhi's rule in the 1980s saw her giving rise to Bhrindanwale (Directly enabled by Sanjay). And the situation in Assam no one knew about.
Dear SG, I just loved this EP… i hope you will make a recounting of your journalistic stories/ episodes. You need to remember that the young subscribers to The Print, have no knowledge/ recollections of what happened in India in the last 50 yrs.
This reminds me of the great Assamese poet, singer and music director, Dr. Bhupen Hazarika's song, "Bistirno du pare ashonkha manuser hahakar sune nishobde nirobe, o gonga tumi o gonga boicho keno?" The peace that currently prevails in the North East has been won after decades of struggles and innumerable blood shed. We must cherish and strive for upholding this peace.
This was a terrifying read. But the sad part is ethnic, communal, lingusitic and all other divisions will be exploited by politicians even after this without consequence.
@SG: Great episode. Please include how these riots of 1983/84 are connected to (if at all) more recent Bodoland disputes between Bodos and Muslims. The last one broke out in 2012/13, I remember seeing burning villages from my train- North-East Express from New Delhi to Guwahati.
This incident happened when AASU & Other Organization who were agitating for deportation of Bangladeshi illegal migrants, Election was held in 1983 and minority Muslims participated in voting which was boycotted by Majority Assamese people in Assam. Minorities were all supporters of Congress!! Congress and other anti BJP political parties and their so called secular people don't discuss about this incident
Indira Gandhi wanted to be known as the lady who ruled with the iron fist. Never to bog down in front of anybody ( not the assamese, sikhs or the mizos). Even after so many blunders she never reformed herself. Great analysis, as someone born in assam in the 90s, i grew up hearing about the "assam agitation" in bits and pieces mostly from my father who was in the assam police. Remember him uttering the slogans of the agitators, it had a line about burying Jyoti Basu. I version i grew up hearing was about the mass protest by AASU across assam which culminated into the Assam Accord - a comparatively calm affair. It was not until the internet became widespread that i came to know about the Nellie massacre and assorted inter ethnic violenec. Thank you for this detailed coverage. I hope next you cover the Mautam in Mizoram ,the subsequent raise of insurgency and the Aizawl air raid by Indian Air force that Mrs Gandhi ordered. First time in the history that any Air force had bombed within national boundary of the same country.
Congress wants IBI muslims and BJP wants IBI hindus in Assam for vote banks, now indigenous Assamese will sooner become a minority in their own state like Tripura
Dear Narrator please avoid covering topics about which you have zero knowledge. Your analysis and knowledge seems zero about the incident. You are unable to cover the Assamese side of the story nor are able to cover the Bengali speaking side of the story. Your report is just what the govt. tried to depict the story. Please stay away from such emotional stories. I live hardly 15 km away from the Nellie area. So I am saying your narrative is completely misguided.
Also we must not forget the 1971 bangladeshi massacre by pak army. 30 lakh bengalis were killed by the pakistani army along with lakhs of rapes in which 80% of the victims are hindus. This is no less than Holocaust but even in the subcontinent many people don't know about it. So sad.
Dear sir i really want to see this whole series but i m unable to watch it full. It's too painful.... I have heard stories from Survivors.... It's so brutal. Sorry sir i can't watch the report but i m glad u made it nd making the world watch.
Most of the Riots Happens because of Administration and Police failure Riots can be easily controllable but offcourse there always politicians who look for some gain in that situation also
I always want to know history, event happened in Assam movement....I was searching those books in ghy district library guwahati....only few Books were written on Assam movement....I heard beside Sekhar gupta, kuldeep nayar, arun Shourie wrote articles constantly during those times.....it will pleasure to know name of those I love to buys for my book collection....again I am interested shekhar gupta books on Assam vally divided book...no pdf available online....want to purchase...pls sent me link from where I can buy this book
Mr Gupta said a lot of things but didn't said a word about it happening during the Congress regime in Assam. And he completely skipped the core cause that led to the killings by the generally peaceful Lalungs. Myself and Dilip Sarma a gentleman from Guwahati were the first persons to inform the Jagiroad police station at about 3-30 am in the cold winter night about something serious happening afar. The horizon to the north of the highway was alight as if on fire. The police didn't took us seriously and took everything in a calm manner. I will never forget that night never in my life. Yes, we were coming in a night service bus from Digboi that night.
@@eggytoast they were bangladeshi hindu immigrants. An immigrant is an immigrant. Doesnt matter hindu or muslim. Coz No West Bengal Hindu have a need to come to Assam, its only Bangladeshi immigrants.
West Bengal , especially the northern part of the state bordering Assam, had huge Bengali refugee influx from Assam. Mostly hindus. You can hear harrowing tales of these atrocities there. The fact that Hindus and Muslim Bengalis were equally brutalised, shows it was not communal. It was an ethnic cleansing of Bengalis. Can't spin this story.
Why will Assam take in bengalis when you have a state of ur own and also a country. You already ate up Tripura? You took barak from the dimasa and bishnupriya manipuri tribes and made it into a bengali speaking region
@@memegasm4102 saa bhai... Bangladeshi nalage. Miya muslim houk ba hindu e houk. Tohot BJP r koti seleka keita r ki josh HINDU bangladeshi k anibole? Ko na tohotoku bangladeshi nalage (hindu muslim both). Tohote kou miya nalage but hindu bangladeshi laage.
A later version of this politics was Ghani Khan Chowdhury who ensured Malda had huge Bangladeshi Muslim population. This migration has been a big factor in Bangladesh control of population growth as well as the significant percentage growth of Muslims in India.
When talking about these incidents we would like to think of it as ugly history which will never happens again, yet these types of massacres and wars keeps happening again and again which is a reminder to us that evil is alive and busy.
@ThePrint , please make a episode containing details why and what led to all these killing, why elections were announced suddenly and why no one want the elections in the first place. A sort of introductory video, if you may.
@@hawkingdawking4572 Bangladesh officially refuses to recognise there are any illegal Bangladeshi immigrants in India & you're expecting them to agree to a population exchange ? Which world are you from ? Gerala or TN ?
Amazing that people criticize CAA while the political history of India has a little known fact that Indira Gandhi wanted to give '4 million' Bangladeshi immigrants the right to vote in India . What was the great need for this decision when the ongoing Assam agitation was already a huge problem?
This brings to our attention that the GOI should make efforts to send these economic immigrants back to their country namely Bangladesh or else nor only will we have law and order issue but also Terrorism. High Time to implement CAA and NRC
Every Massacares happened in INDIA is due to the continuous ingnorance of Hindus on several issues,and it is still going on ,everyone just busy in disussing the aftermath and discussing ferociously about the massacares but not the cause. What Hindus are capable in INDIA when they go in rampant mode is evident from several incidents but still there is no procedure to tackle the resentment among the HINDUS.Gone are the days when Information wasn't handy but it is now spreading like wild fire resulting in mass radicalisation of HINDUS,address the issues of HINDUS otherwise we are just piling DYNAMITE under our table and it will just need one spark to create ball of fire and wreck havoc in INDIA
I request you to do a 3rd documentary and present the other side of the argument as well since untill now you gave a very one sided description of the event only. You are mainly presenting the story with empathy for the illegal immigrants. What about rights of the original indigenous citizens? No one talks about why it happened. The illegal immigration and resulting rapid demographic change (threatening to replace the local language & culture) was and still is the main problem which no one seems to be addressing seriously.
Proud to be Assamese. Jai Aai Axom... Jai Hind. If Miya Muslims do not leave Assam, we will soon take such action against Miya Muslims again. Kela Eta Eta Miya Sutamarni Sobok Katibo Time Aahi Gol.
Love this re-counting of the past. I used to read IT during the late 80’s and early 90’s and recollect also coverage by Inderjit Bhadwar & Dilip Bobb., IT then was the only decent ‘ political’ magazine apart of ‘ Frontline’ later
This is most confusing video I have ever watched. I think a middle school student can do a better job than Shekhar Gupta in communication. To be clear I am not questioning facts but the the way it was delivered. Absolutely terrible and by the end of it I couldn’t make head or tail of it.
There was only one way to deliver a story of historical significance and with such a vast array of characters happening in a large state: the book way. In video, the orator is hard pressed to narrate the main event, simultaneously explain all the nuisance of the story, introducing multitude of characters while keeping the audience engaged.
You must share this story with bbc to make a documentary or find someone like anurag kashyap to make it as you told it without any distortion. It would indeed be interesting to know if they show interest because the protagonist is not someone named Narendra Modi.!!
Such violence should never happen again. But congress is to be blamed for it. Tribal people have an animal nature of being territorial unless reformed through education. Sirf assam mei hi nahi, north east ke baki kisi bhi tribal state pe illegal immigrant jor jabardasti rakh do, be it bangladeshi or pakistani or sri lankan; same reaction will be seen from local tribals. Its not racism, its being territorial. For example Meghalaya mei toh koi bhi non meghalaya wala aadmi land nahi purchase kar saketa, itna territorial hai woh log. Assam was very educationally backward at that time. Intelligent Congress despite knowing this nature of tribals,leaving foreign bangladeshi immigrants in refugee camps, there was like leaving group of untrained dogs and cats who were not used to live with each other to live in the same cage priorly inhabitated by one of the species ;and it was first kind of an event for both these 2 groups of people; and therefore Violence was bound to happen. Depicting those day's both illegal hindu and muslim immigrants as present day's legal bengali indian citizen, 40 years later today by this video will now instigate hate and communism towads assamese people; instead of focusing on ground level solutions like education and reforms which is a slow hard process but a sure way of bringing harmony among present day inhabitants of Assam. Instigating people to fight against each other is nature of politics today in india, instead of focusing on real life problems and solutions. Its sad that such tragic loss of life happened but the decision choice of reffuge camp location of immigrats at wrong time, of those time country's leaders is to be blamed; which wouldn't have happened if the refugee camps were set up at better suitable places. And reason for not releasing this information of this event 40 years ago is because everyone would have criticised this stupid decision of then in power congress for setting up an unprotected refugee camp in a territorial tribal belt. Seeing today's Pappu's intelligence it is easy to imagine his forefather's intelligence from this tragic event. For example take for example Sentinelise island on Andaman and Nicobar islands; everybody will laugh at any government who will set up a refugee camp there. Pakka government officials bhi wapas nahi ayega waha se.
You missed the part that says lalungs were particularly peaceful, I am sure other parts of Indian which were obviously non tribal would have seen incidents if you let some thousands of immigrants encroach on their land.
People know of Godra coz Congress popularized it. What's overlooked are Emergency, Nellie massacre, Sikh Genocide, Bhagalpur riots, Kashmiri Pandit Genocide just in a decade or so.
It is an amazing talent some old Indian men have to turn even the most interesting things boring😂😂. I just read about the incident and was able to understand it but the way he is narrating it i would have slept after 10 minutes
Mera father hume bola ,,Jab woh 12 sal ka tha ...Hamare ghar par firing aya tha ...hamare ghar Bongaigaon dist main hai ...Applog kashmir movie bana diya ...gujarat 2002 ,delhi 2019,1992 babri masjid ...muslim ko mara gaya uska baat koi nhi karega
No Assamese Muslims were harmed in Assam Agitation. Assamese Muslims protested against the illegal influx of Bangladeshis which destroyed the social fabric of Assam.
Sir, With all due respect. Bengali Muslims have usurped a lot of Assam and pretty soon Assam shall be a Bengali Muslim majority territory. We may then try and convince the political elite sporting Beards and Skull Caps to pay respect to Secular Principles.
@@shalimar1792 Brahmaputra valley NEVER HAD BENGALI INDIGENOUS POPULATION. Besides, AHOMS RESPECTED AND ABSORBED THE NATIVE LANGUAGE, RELIGION AND CULTURAL PRACTISES, ALL THREE. UNLIKE BENGALI MUSLIM ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS AND THEIR DESCENDANTS. WHAT A SIGHT IT'LL BE IF 20 YEARS FROM NOW WAVE AFTER WAVE OF BIHARI, PURBIA, JHARKHANDI AND ODIA MIGRANTS MOVE TO BANGLADESH FOR WORKING IN IT'S TEXTILE INDUSTRY ✌
My Bengali Hindu aunt had to leave Assam , thanks to Assamese ppl making it impossible for Bengali girls to live in Assam. For those who think this was a Hindu Muslim issue , it was not. It was a Assamese Bengali clash.
@@jishudas7099 So you are gonna decide who is Bangladeshi or Indian ? Just because it does not suit your vote bank narrative right ! None of them were Bangladeshi.. all INDIAN. Bengali Indian , stop licking Assamese a$
@@kaustav384 do you really think its so easy to implement languages by any refugees while having such strong government.. anyways you puny plagiarised culture which you call Assamese people are naive and always insecure peeps. Feel sad about you guys evil people. You people should be thankful that west Bengal didn't retaliated otherwise you linguistic plagiarised people would still be living in jungles hungry begging. Our economic blockade was something you people still can't handle. It is the BHODROLOKS of Kolkata who are stopping Bengali retaliation.
In the previous video you said your estimate was 3000. And on this video you said it's 7000. Which one is accurate? Btw Nellie is a town, not a distinct. It's located in my district, Morigaon. The tragic incident is personal to me as my parents and grandparents had witnessed it.
No money to feed their own population , how will they handle Kashmir? Pakistan is like a dog running after a car.... Dosent even know what he will do after it gets the car.... 😂.
Lalung Raja, Chief! You smiled after that word. Don't teach us old man. That derogatory smile that you used after naming chief and king... You can't digest that tribal have chiefs.....come here in assam we ll show you. With due respect btw mai baap
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Also, these bengali speaking Muslims were immigrants from bangladesh who came illegally. It is absolutely not okay why illegal bangladeshis will get a stay in our Assam land!.
Right ,assam is land for only indigenous people not for muslims ,our ancestors fought and defeated islamic rulers but due to congress our assam is still suffering from muslims
There won't be a Mr.Gupta around to write a First Person Second Draft piece when the indigenous people of Assam become a minority in their own homeland. But hopefully ThePrint will be around and some smart guy will go the extra mile to report and write series of articles on the systemic "silent genocide" of indigenous people of Assam.
“History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.” Mark Twain
We can only pray that such atrocities never occur in Assam.
This is why borders and demographics are important. Where demographics are messed up, there is always scope for violence, especially when things don’t go well economically.
This was a time when I was too young to understand anything . My cousin brother was there in Assam and my parents were very afraid he was a doctor there. My father and uncle always asked him to come back as Bengalies were getting killed . I could not understand then . Today you made everything clear thank you .
I had never even heard of this massacre. Thanks for bringing it to light.
Assam's greatest tragedy was ,is and always will be the "Demographic Change".
Assumese people at that time killed and raped 10000s in the name of some indigenous identity
Fascism fails
Shut up @@midorimashintaro2092
Thank You So much SG. Bought a subscription half way through the first video. Hoping you'd make more like this.
Did you get access to the published materials? Like the soft copy of the book.?
Thank you for watching. We will certainly try to put out more content like this. Best wishes, Shekhar
Stand for Assamese Tribals whose land are being taken from them.
Late Mrs Gandhi visited Nellie for a brief while in a convoy of cars .
One of her biggest political blunders along with the Golden temple fiasco .
So in short Bengali Muslims attacked Assamese Tribals and Hindus. In turn Assamese Hindus and Tribals attacked Bengali Hindus. Then they also attacked Bengali Muslims but the Muslims retaliated so the Tribals killed Assamese Hindus. Somewhere in between you also had Assamese Sikhs and CPRF forces too. What a clusterfuck.
All coz Indira Gandhi wanted to give '4 million immigrants from Bangladesh the right to vote' .. that too during the Assam agitation . People blame Mamta Banerjee but the trend had started decades back
In short, Assamese (all religions, both tribals and non-tribals) want all Illegal Immigrant Bengalis (all religions) to leave Assam.
@@thedarklord4124 key word being 'illegal immigrant'.
@@dhven9274 BJP wants the same too, reason being most of the migrants in 71 were Bengali Hindus. Bengali Muslims migrated pre partition with British support as the British wanted to turn Assam into Muslim majority for their colonial ambitions as Hindus tended to agitate against the colonial government.
@@orkkojit Bengali Hindu are mostly communist. So, non-Bengali Hindu won't feel any connection with woke communist ideology.
'First Person Second Draft' is a brilliant concept. It allows the person to look at the same event in the current context.
It is completely unfair to speak about Assam agitation when you don't cover how Swahid Anil Bora was killed by the Bengali speaking people...It was all started by the Bengali speaking people......
"You can get quite far in a democracy if you can convince a majority that they are victims of a minority."
Garry Kasparov.
You guys have been taken for a ride by AASU Xenophobes and all the powers that be and you can't still admit it. You are captives of your own false narratives.
Pls tell more about it
So you guys killed 6000 Muslims dubbing them as bengali.
Yeah boomer. Refugees dont fight....
Victim blaming
Bangladeshi muxlimz,1st time I've heard an Immigrant population looting land of local population (Assamese) and making them move, than enforcing ethnic violence on local tribes in name of religion. This is why we need NRC in Assam
So why racist Assamese attack Bengali Hindu? 🤡
@@eggytoastthey don't answer this, ever. Assamese people are generally extremely racist. Especially towards Bengalis, while Bengalis outnumber them 50:1, they're very calm level headed people who get called outsiders and Bangladeshis. Bangladesh is basically East Bengal India, Bengalis are more Indians than them. It's the only community in India with most Nobel prizes, your anthem is Bengali. Assamese people need to be better. Don't cry about racism outside when you're racists within
@@eggytoastBangladeshi refugee, you people are the most racist that is the reason you all got kicked out of Bangladesh. You people do hindu muslim every time and fight in the name of religion. We people accepted you on humanitarian ground but you all make anti Assamese statements. Put black color to Assamese banner and posters. Took Cachar from the indigenous people. Kashpur in Cachar was the last capital of Kachari Kingdom and also Koch Rahbonshi. Hindu Bangladeshis are the major threat to indigenous people. Get lost to your place illegal immigrants.
@@grimmywizardWhat Indian you were? Before Independence it was British India and before that it was Bengal ruled for centuries by Muslims invaders since Bhaktiyar Khilji. Assam was an independent kingdom and was under Myanmar before the British got Assam from Myanmar through Yandoboo Treaty in 1826. The British then included Assam with their already captured Bengal for ease of administration. You could not save yourself from Muslim invasion and how dare you compare to us? Our ancestors were able to fight the Muslim invasion and never let them rule us. Therefore we need not to run like refugees to other countries out of fear from Muslims. We will never allow CAA implementation in North East India.
@@eggytoastyou maybe be bengali, but from Bangladesh🇧🇩 not India, people like you are flooding which is a concern for us, Northeast tribals.
We don't want another Tripura like situation in the rest Northeast states.
We feel for you guys and allow you to dwell with your family, but you people act like owning the land & betray the locals instead & expect us to give you chocolate or sing praises?
Thank you Sir, for bringing up some hidden tragic stories 🙏 😢
hidden? lol the killings of Hindus are the hidden stories. this incident was also result of more than 15000 hindu deaths but he won't mention that. Hindus riots as retaliation, Muslims riotsr because Muhammad's words command them to
Nellie massacre is pretty famous, far from obscure
@@mayanksingh0044 Not really. I had never heard about it. North east is always "out of sight, out of mind" for most Indians. No media outlet talks about it. No one mentioms it like we mention 1984, 2002 etc.
ONE ISSUE : ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS since then.. Been hearing about these from mother, father, aunt , grandfather .. they were among the sufferers whom lost all their wealth, fortune, and whole lot of themselves during those days. When such discussions happens , all will talk less and try to get away that the extent of violence can be predicted. Got some details through the ep. Thanks Print , Thanks Sir 👍
Do a detailed series of this sort on 1984 Punjab insurgency too! There's alot of material easily accessible about what perspired in the big scheme but only dense academic works on the granular details!! Would love to see more of these sort of 'mini documentary series' by SG
He did it now!
@@sohambanerjee99 yes!!! Am so glad 😭
Nehru -Gandhi family's dirty history to hold power ! Indira Gandhi was so desperate that she wanted give '4 million immigrants from Bangladesh the right to vote' .. that too during the Assam agitation . No concern for people, only for power & vested interests
I never knew about this tragedy...Thank you for this incisive analysis, Mr Shekhar Gupta
Shekhar has Indira and Sanjay Gandhi's pictures in the background.. which is very appropriate. The 4 disastrous years of Indira Gandhi's rule in the 1980s saw her giving rise to Bhrindanwale (Directly enabled by Sanjay). And the situation in Assam no one knew about.
Dear SG,
I just loved this EP… i hope you will make a recounting of your journalistic stories/ episodes.
You need to remember that the young subscribers to The Print, have no knowledge/ recollections of what happened in India in the last 50 yrs.
Exactly but do u feel the print will be neutral?
This reminds me of the great Assamese poet, singer and music director, Dr. Bhupen Hazarika's song, "Bistirno du pare ashonkha manuser hahakar sune nishobde nirobe, o gonga tumi o gonga boicho keno?"
The peace that currently prevails in the North East has been won after decades of struggles and innumerable blood shed. We must cherish and strive for upholding this peace.
This was a terrifying read. But the sad part is ethnic, communal, lingusitic and all other divisions will be exploited by politicians even after this without consequence.
I, being a Manipuri feel strange that I never knew these stories. So gruesome,..... waiting for the next part. Also, would love to read the book.
Already there is a book name Nellie massacre written by Japanese girl
manipuris also suffered by their hands in cachar
@SG: Great episode. Please include how these riots of 1983/84 are connected to (if at all) more recent Bodoland disputes between Bodos and Muslims. The last one broke out in 2012/13, I remember seeing burning villages from my train- North-East Express from New Delhi to Guwahati.
True, my village house got burned in bodo and muslims riot
Thanks for shining a light on the biases faced by linguistic minorities in Assam.
Nellie is not a Distinct, it is a part of the Morigaon district. I belong to this district.
Appreciate the episode never heard about the incident before.
Appreciate that such incidents are being bought to light. Can you also please make similar content on the secret killings of Assam?
This incident happened when AASU & Other Organization who were agitating for deportation of Bangladeshi illegal migrants, Election was held in 1983 and minority Muslims participated in voting which was boycotted by Majority Assamese people in Assam. Minorities were all supporters of Congress!! Congress and other anti BJP political parties and their so called secular people don't
discuss about this incident
Thank you for covering less talked yet important past from North East
Indira Gandhi wanted to be known as the lady who ruled with the iron fist. Never to bog down in front of anybody ( not the assamese, sikhs or the mizos). Even after so many blunders she never reformed herself.
Great analysis, as someone born in assam in the 90s, i grew up hearing about the "assam agitation" in bits and pieces mostly from my father who was in the assam police. Remember him uttering the slogans of the agitators, it had a line about burying Jyoti Basu.
I version i grew up hearing was about the mass protest by AASU across assam which culminated into the Assam Accord - a comparatively calm affair. It was not until the internet became widespread that i came to know about the Nellie massacre and assorted inter ethnic violenec.
Thank you for this detailed coverage.
I hope next you cover the Mautam in Mizoram ,the subsequent raise of insurgency and the Aizawl air raid by Indian Air force that Mrs Gandhi ordered. First time in the history that any Air force had bombed within national boundary of the same country.
Very intriguing
Sad or funny part is no one else remembers this or is talking about it except you
Congress wants IBI muslims and BJP wants IBI hindus in Assam for vote banks, now indigenous Assamese will sooner become a minority in their own state like Tripura
Dear Narrator please avoid covering topics about which you have zero knowledge. Your analysis and knowledge seems zero about the incident. You are unable to cover the Assamese side of the story nor are able to cover the Bengali speaking side of the story. Your report is just what the govt. tried to depict the story. Please stay away from such emotional stories. I live hardly 15 km away from the Nellie area. So I am saying your narrative is completely misguided.
Great respect for our Assamese brothers 🤝🤝🤝
Dear Shekharji, eagerly awaiting your book on your first hand report across all the event's that you have been involved in.
Also we must not forget the 1971 bangladeshi massacre by pak army.
30 lakh bengalis were killed by the pakistani army along with lakhs of rapes in which 80% of the victims are hindus.
This is no less than Holocaust but even in the subcontinent many people don't know about it. So sad.
Just hindu lie
Fantastic account!
Waiting eagerly for Part-2
I vividly remember this tragedy. The hindu news paper had covered it very well. Shame on the congress party.
Dear sir i really want to see this whole series but i m unable to watch it full. It's too painful.... I have heard stories from Survivors.... It's so brutal. Sorry sir i can't watch the report but i m glad u made it nd making the world watch.
Oh Yes, this is painful. Naokhali riots were music to your ears.
Wish we still had those long gone Glorious days of independent press & real journalism! We only have PR agents now.
Most of the Riots Happens because of Administration and Police failure
Riots can be easily controllable but offcourse there always politicians who look for some gain in that situation also
Narrated in such a way that being very interested to know the cascade of events leading to Nellie Masaacre, I could not comprehend the narrative
I always want to know history, event happened in Assam movement....I was searching those books in ghy district library guwahati....only few Books were written on Assam movement....I heard beside Sekhar gupta, kuldeep nayar, arun Shourie wrote articles constantly during those times.....it will pleasure to know name of those I love to buys for my book collection....again I am interested shekhar gupta books on Assam vally divided book...no pdf available online....want to purchase...pls sent me link from where I can buy this book
drive.google.com/file/d/1HIyCAbYzzY83wXRyb0Zod4W7jFEG4bok/view?usp=drivesdk
Here had got my hands on this rare e copy after reading anticipating india.
Why Cong is never held responsible for killings during their rule?
Can we buy this book of yours from somewhere? Maybe online?
For the interested...a fine pdf copy of the book is available in libgen. The accounts are gut wrenching to say the least.
Thanks. will get it.
ah thanks
Mr Gupta said a lot of things but didn't said a word about it happening during the Congress regime in Assam. And he completely skipped the core cause that led to the killings by the generally peaceful Lalungs.
Myself and Dilip Sarma a gentleman from Guwahati were the first persons to inform the Jagiroad police station at about 3-30 am in the cold winter night about something serious happening afar. The horizon to the north of the highway was alight as if on fire. The police didn't took us seriously and took everything in a calm manner. I will never forget that night never in my life. Yes, we were coming in a night service bus from Digboi that night.
we are stand with Assam hindus
When ur tired of standing, please sit for sometime
@@anwarmi2000 go back to bangladesh
@@ramanujbaruah2200 , Is it OK if I go tomorrow? Today I am bit tired.
What about Bengali Hindu who are attacked by racist Assamese thugs?
@@eggytoast they were bangladeshi hindu immigrants. An immigrant is an immigrant. Doesnt matter hindu or muslim. Coz No West Bengal Hindu have a need to come to Assam, its only Bangladeshi immigrants.
West Bengal , especially the northern part of the state bordering Assam, had huge Bengali refugee influx from Assam. Mostly hindus. You can hear harrowing tales of these atrocities there. The fact that Hindus and Muslim Bengalis were equally brutalised, shows it was not communal. It was an ethnic cleansing of Bengalis. Can't spin this story.
Same with Rohingya. Rohingya mainly Muslim but among them are Hindu who owned land
Why will Assam take in bengalis when you have a state of ur own and also a country. You already ate up Tripura? You took barak from the dimasa and bishnupriya manipuri tribes and made it into a bengali speaking region
@@P1997Dutta heitu karone axom r unoti huwa na, bhairoth goi suwa bangalore , Maharashtra Tate ki eta community thake ne mix ase?
@@P1997Duttathote miya tat mati bikri kori diya tarpisot , hindu bengali logot mori thaka
@@memegasm4102 saa bhai... Bangladeshi nalage. Miya muslim houk ba hindu e houk. Tohot BJP r koti seleka keita r ki josh HINDU bangladeshi k anibole? Ko na tohotoku bangladeshi nalage (hindu muslim both). Tohote kou miya nalage but hindu bangladeshi laage.
When SG talks of history, he ignores the role of Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed He kept ensuring massive Muslim migration as it represented a vote bank.
A later version of this politics was Ghani Khan Chowdhury who ensured Malda had huge Bangladeshi Muslim population. This migration has been a big factor in Bangladesh control of population growth as well as the significant percentage growth of Muslims in India.
When talking about these incidents we would like to think of it as ugly history which will never happens again, yet these types of massacres and wars keeps happening again and again which is a reminder to us that evil is alive and busy.
@ThePrint , please make a episode containing details why and what led to all these killing, why elections were announced suddenly and why no one want the elections in the first place. A sort of introductory video, if you may.
Why didn't they go back after 47' or 71'?
India is simply not their country
Well, you should tell that legally. And ask Bangladesh for a population exchange.
@@hawkingdawking4572 Bangladesh officially refuses to recognise there are any illegal Bangladeshi immigrants in India & you're expecting them to agree to a population exchange ? Which world are you from ? Gerala or TN ?
Amazing that people criticize CAA while the political history of India has a little known fact that Indira Gandhi wanted to give '4 million' Bangladeshi immigrants the right to vote in India . What was the great need for this decision when the ongoing Assam agitation was already a huge problem?
@@ic9771
As an anti-national, I am happy that you guys are screwed with no solution.
@@hawkingdawking4572 there's always s solution. Cometh the hour cometh the man & with him the solution.
This brings to our attention that the GOI should make efforts to send these economic immigrants back to their country namely Bangladesh or else nor only will we have law and order issue but also Terrorism. High Time to implement CAA and NRC
Every Massacares happened in INDIA is due to the continuous ingnorance of Hindus on several issues,and it is still going on ,everyone just busy in disussing the aftermath and discussing ferociously about the massacares but not the cause.
What Hindus are capable in INDIA when they go in rampant mode is evident from several incidents but still there is no procedure to tackle the resentment among the HINDUS.Gone are the days when Information wasn't handy but it is now spreading like wild fire resulting in mass radicalisation of HINDUS,address the issues of HINDUS otherwise we are just piling DYNAMITE under our table and it will just need one spark to create ball of fire and wreck havoc in INDIA
Sincerely speak about Mopla massacre
I request you to do a 3rd documentary and present the other side of the argument as well since untill now you gave a very one sided description of the event only. You are mainly presenting the story with empathy for the illegal immigrants. What about rights of the original indigenous citizens? No one talks about why it happened. The illegal immigration and resulting rapid demographic change (threatening to replace the local language & culture) was and still is the main problem which no one seems to be addressing seriously.
Congress was in power in 1984(riots against Sikhs),1983, 1987 (hashimpura), 2002.
Bro 2002 happened because of Bjp which was in power during 2002, Law and Order is under State list and also Vajpeyi government was there in Centre
Will Rohingyas create the same issue, as they too are illigal immigrants in India and some parties using them as vote bank
It wasn’t communal, it was anti Bengali riot
Why teleprompter sir? Your ad-lib story telling is more interesting
Please sir, also do about BHUMKA RAPE CASE and Gohpur Massacare.
2014 violence too.
History keeps repeating itself
Proud to be Assamese. Jai Aai Axom... Jai Hind. If Miya Muslims do not leave Assam, we will soon take such action against Miya Muslims again. Kela Eta Eta Miya Sutamarni Sobok Katibo Time Aahi Gol.
Love this re-counting of the past. I used to read IT during the late 80’s and early 90’s and recollect also coverage by Inderjit Bhadwar & Dilip Bobb.,
IT then was the only decent ‘ political’ magazine apart of ‘ Frontline’ later
Make a documentary on Marichjhapi massacre in WB in 1979, if you have brave heart
This is most confusing video I have ever watched. I think a middle school student can do a better job than Shekhar Gupta in communication. To be clear I am not questioning facts but the the way it was delivered. Absolutely terrible and by the end of it I couldn’t make head or tail of it.
There was only one way to deliver a story of historical significance and with such a vast array of characters happening in a large state: the book way. In video, the orator is hard pressed to narrate the main event, simultaneously explain all the nuisance of the story, introducing multitude of characters while keeping the audience engaged.
ask me.
Thanos aaya tha bhai waha
You must share this story with bbc to make a documentary or find someone like anurag kashyap to make it as you told it without any distortion. It would indeed be interesting to know if they show interest because the protagonist is not someone named Narendra Modi.!!
Such violence should never happen again. But congress is to be blamed for it. Tribal people have an animal nature of being territorial unless reformed through education. Sirf assam mei hi nahi, north east ke baki kisi bhi tribal state pe illegal immigrant jor jabardasti rakh do, be it bangladeshi or pakistani or sri lankan; same reaction will be seen from local tribals. Its not racism, its being territorial. For example Meghalaya mei toh koi bhi non meghalaya wala aadmi land nahi purchase kar saketa, itna territorial hai woh log. Assam was very educationally backward at that time. Intelligent Congress despite knowing this nature of tribals,leaving foreign bangladeshi immigrants in refugee camps, there was like leaving group of untrained dogs and cats who were not used to live with each other to live in the same cage priorly inhabitated by one of the species ;and it was first kind of an event for both these 2 groups of people; and therefore Violence was bound to happen. Depicting those day's both illegal hindu and muslim immigrants as present day's legal bengali indian citizen, 40 years later today by this video will now instigate hate and communism towads assamese people; instead of focusing on ground level solutions like education and reforms which is a slow hard process but a sure way of bringing harmony among present day inhabitants of Assam. Instigating people to fight against each other is nature of politics today in india, instead of focusing on real life problems and solutions. Its sad that such tragic loss of life happened but the decision choice of reffuge camp location of immigrats at wrong time, of those time country's leaders is to be blamed; which wouldn't have happened if the refugee camps were set up at better suitable places. And reason for not releasing this information of this event 40 years ago is because everyone would have criticised this stupid decision of then in power congress for setting up an unprotected refugee camp in a territorial tribal belt. Seeing today's Pappu's intelligence it is easy to imagine his forefather's intelligence from this tragic event.
For example take for example Sentinelise island on Andaman and Nicobar islands; everybody will laugh at any government who will set up a refugee camp there. Pakka government officials bhi wapas nahi ayega waha se.
You missed the part that says lalungs were particularly peaceful, I am sure other parts of Indian which were obviously non tribal would have seen incidents if you let some thousands of immigrants encroach on their land.
Horrifying
People know of Godra coz Congress popularized it. What's overlooked are Emergency, Nellie massacre, Sikh Genocide, Bhagalpur riots, Kashmiri Pandit Genocide just in a decade or so.
It is an amazing talent some old Indian men have to turn even the most interesting things boring😂😂. I just read about the incident and was able to understand it but the way he is narrating it i would have slept after 10 minutes
You're a r*tard, to have found this boring.
😓😓😓🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Mera father hume bola ,,Jab woh 12 sal ka tha ...Hamare ghar par firing aya tha ...hamare ghar Bongaigaon dist main hai ...Applog kashmir movie bana diya ...gujarat 2002 ,delhi 2019,1992 babri masjid ...muslim ko mara gaya uska baat koi nhi karega
No Assamese Muslims were harmed in Assam Agitation. Assamese Muslims protested against the illegal influx of Bangladeshis which destroyed the social fabric of Assam.
Namaste
Sir,
With all due respect.
Bengali Muslims have usurped a lot of Assam and pretty soon Assam shall be a Bengali Muslim majority territory.
We may then try and convince the political elite sporting Beards and Skull Caps to pay respect to Secular Principles.
Tribals were migrants from Myanmar and Thailand too, apart from the local idegenousbengalus both of hindu n musl religion..
@@shalimar1792 Brahmaputra valley NEVER HAD BENGALI INDIGENOUS POPULATION. Besides, AHOMS RESPECTED AND ABSORBED THE NATIVE LANGUAGE, RELIGION AND CULTURAL PRACTISES, ALL THREE. UNLIKE BENGALI MUSLIM ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS AND THEIR DESCENDANTS.
WHAT A SIGHT IT'LL BE IF 20 YEARS FROM NOW WAVE AFTER WAVE OF BIHARI, PURBIA, JHARKHANDI AND ODIA MIGRANTS MOVE TO BANGLADESH FOR WORKING IN IT'S TEXTILE INDUSTRY ✌
@@shalimar1792 fucker we have been here for thousands of years , dont you dare call us immigrants
Good work on Assam civil war.
Bangladeshi Muslim s changed demographic in my Assam......al because of congress
My Bengali Hindu aunt had to leave Assam , thanks to Assamese ppl making it impossible for Bengali girls to live in Assam. For those who think this was a Hindu Muslim issue , it was not. It was a Assamese Bengali clash.
@@jishudas7099 So you are gonna decide who is Bangladeshi or Indian ? Just because it does not suit your vote bank narrative right ! None of them were Bangladeshi.. all INDIAN. Bengali Indian , stop licking Assamese a$
@@jishudas7099 so cut a pregnant women's belly and pull out the child.
I wonder how a movie on " The Assam files" would go on box office.
@@Huhuhaaaaa520 If refugees want to implement their language on our land ,more things will occur
@@kaustav384 do you really think its so easy to implement languages by any refugees while having such strong government.. anyways you puny plagiarised culture which you call Assamese people are naive and always insecure peeps. Feel sad about you guys evil people.
You people should be thankful that west Bengal didn't retaliated otherwise you linguistic plagiarised people would still be living in jungles hungry begging. Our economic blockade was something you people still can't handle. It is the BHODROLOKS of Kolkata who are stopping Bengali retaliation.
And Bengali Hindus are forced to leave east pakistan when riots happened... talk about tha
In the previous video you said your estimate was 3000. And on this video you said it's 7000. Which one is accurate?
Btw Nellie is a town, not a distinct. It's located in my district, Morigaon. The tragic incident is personal to me as my parents and grandparents had witnessed it.
Lalums just retaliated tightly for their land
THE ASSAM FILES.
WORLD SHOULD OFFICIALLY RECOGNISED KASHMIR AS PART OF PAKISTAN 🇵🇰❤️
It's disputed.
World should officially recognise pakistan as part of india .
No money to feed their own population , how will they handle Kashmir? Pakistan is like a dog running after a car.... Dosent even know what he will do after it gets the car.... 😂.
World including Kashmiris has officially recognised Paxtan as Bhikaris . Ab kashkol le aur bheekh maang Izzlami mumalikon se .
@@hawkingdawking4572 you're right . The only dispute being when do we retake Pakistan Occupied J&K.
Lalung Raja, Chief! You smiled after that word. Don't teach us old man. That derogatory smile that you used after naming chief and king... You can't digest that tribal have chiefs.....come here in assam we ll show you. With due respect btw mai baap
Biggest Genocide in the history of assam 1983..