The Assam movement was a combination of cultural pride and economic
backwardness. Explain.
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The Assam movement was a combination of cultural pride and economic backwardness. Explain.
There was large scale migration into Assam from India or other countries. These were considered as encroachers on scarce resources like land and potential competitors to employment opportunities and political power. The Assamese suspected that there were huge numbers of illegal Bengali Muslim settlers from Bangladesh. The Assamese felt that unless these foreign nationals are detected and deported they would reduce the indigenous Assamese into a minority. It would harm their culture. At the same time there was widespread poverty and unemployment in Assam despite the existence of natural resources like oil, tea and coal. They felt that these resources would be drained out of the state without any commensurate benefit to the people .
The prevalent situation initiated the Assam movement against the outsiders in 1979 and continued up to 1985 when an accord was signed.
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a) The Assam movement was against the infiltration of Bengali Muslims from Bangladesh. It believed that this would affect the cultural integration of the State
b) Inspite of the availability of resources in Assam (like tea, coal etc), poverty and unemployment was rampant in Assam
c) The agitation adopted many methods that garnered support from diverse groups from across the State of Assam