Role of assamese political leaders in ethnic causes
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An extremely militant agitation ostensibly to throw out ‘foreigners’ , but targeted more generally against all non-Assamese people , gripped the state from 1979 to 1985 . It was led by the All-Assam Students Union (AASU).
One of the factors that gave the agitation ground support was the large-scale influx from Bangladesh , particularly after 1971 . The Muslim population of Assam rose 77% between 1971 and 1991 , whereas the Hindu population rose about 42% during the same period.
The Muslim population in Assam consists of various streams. There are indigenous Assamese-speaking Muslims whose forefathers came as Mughal warriors, Muslims from East Bengal who settled in Assam before Partition, those who migrated from erstwhile East Pakistan , and immigrants from Bangladesh after its creation in 1971, who crossed over through the porous border.