The Assam Movement, also known as the Anti-Foreigners Agitation, was a popular uprising in Assam, India, from 1979 to 1985, that demanded the Government...
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secessionist movement. The ULFA seeks to establish a sovereign Assam via armed struggle. MULTA (Muslim United Liberation Tigers of Assam), on the other...
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to affect contemporary politics, most notably that which led to the Assam Movement and its aftermath. The region that came to be known as undivided Goalpara...
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The Assam Accord was a Memorandum of Settlement (MoS) signed between representatives of the Government of India and the leaders of the Assam Movement. It...
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Neo-Vaishnavite movement introduced by Sankaradeva are other important primary sources for the region's history. The history of Assam can be divided into...
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known for leading the six-year Assam Movement against Bengalis of both Indian and Bangladeshi origin living in Assam. The original leadership of the organisation...
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Assam (Assamese: oxom, pronounced [ɔ'xɔm] , ə-SoM, a-SAM, English: /əs'ɑːm/) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the...
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Islam is the second largest and fastest-growing religion in Assam. The Muslim population was approximately 10.68 million, constituting over 34.22% of...
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Bongal Kheda (category History of Assam)
Bongal Kheda (trans. "Drive out the Bengalis) was a nationalistic movement in Assam, India, orchestrated by native Assamese job seekers which aimed to...
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Voting was delayed in the Sikh-majority state of Punjab, while the Assam movement and sporadic violence in Mizoram by the Mizo National Front as a part...
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There were three Burmese invasions of Assam between 1817 and 1826, during which time the Kingdom of Assam came under the control of Burma from 1821 to...
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Assam Province was a province of British India, created in 1912 by the partition of the Eastern Bengal and Assam Province. Its capital was in Shillong...
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acclaim for the documentation on the Assam Movement, the Assam Accord and the insurgencies in Assam in her debut book Assam: The Accord, The Discord. Barooah...
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official language and medium of instruction in the educational institutions of Assam, India. The struggle for the use of Assamese for official purposes, in courts...
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Prafulla Kumar Mahanta (category Chief ministers of Assam)
is an Indian politician who was the leader of the Assam Movement, and the 11th Chief Minister of Assam from 1985 to 1990 and again from 1996 to 2001 and...
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Non-Cooperation Movement, Civil Disobedience Movement, Quit India Movement and the Swadeshi Movement. He led the movement in the greater Lakhimpur region of Assam that...
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The People of Assam inhabit a multi-ethnic, multi-linguistic and multi-religious society. They speak languages that belong to four main language groups:...
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on the electoral rolls in Assam. This led to a popular movement against undocumented immigrants known as the Assam Movement, which insisted on striking...
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minorities communities of Assam. It was formed in 1980, on the eve of Assam movement, to safeguard the interest of the minorities social rights and their...
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Rita Chowdhury (category Assam academics)
lecturer at Cotton College, Guwahati, Assam in the Political Science Department and was active in the Assam Movement in the early 1980s. Chowdhury was born...
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Photographeror Sobi" which evolves around a photographer from the time of the Assam Movement. Tapan Das Aparna Dutta Choudhury Pabitra Baruah Jolly Laskar Zubeen...
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official language movement: All Manipur Students' Union (AMSU) Assam Manipuri Meira Paibi Lup Assam Manipuri Sahitya Parishad All Assam Manipuri Muslim...
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Biraj Kumar Sarma (category Assam MLAs 1985–1991)
leaders of the All Assam Students’ Union (AASU).[5] He was a front ranking leader of the six-year-long Assam Movement led by the All Assam Students Union...
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The Refinery Movement in Assam was an agitation, which took place in 1956-57, protesting against the decision of the Union Government to set up a refinery...
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Norwegian and French films. Born in an Assamese Muslim family in Goalpara, Assam on 5 October 1963, where his father was the headmaster of a high secondary...
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Nellie, 1983 (category 1980s in Assam)
massacre that took place during the Assam Movement in 1983. The book is published by Eklabya Prakashan, Jorhat, Assam. On 17 February 1983, two truckloads...
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Ahom kingdom (redirect from Kingdom of Assam)
kingdom or the Kingdom of Assam (/ˈɑːhɔːm/; 1228–1826) was a late medieval kingdom in the Brahmaputra Valley (present-day Assam) that retained its independence...
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North Kamrup violence (category Assam articles missing geocoordinate data)
of violent incidents in North Kamrup, Assam, on 4–5 January 1980 between those who supported the Assam Movement and those who opposed it. Triggered by...
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proper rendering support, you may see errors in display. The culture of Assam is traditionally a hybrid one, developed due to cultural assimilation of...
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Golaghat (redirect from Golaghat, Assam)
Gʊlaɡʱat ['ɡʊlaɡʱat] ) one of the largest subdivisions of the Indian state of Assam, later elevated to the position of a full–fledged district headquarter on...
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