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Since the fifties or so sixties Great Britain decided to get rid of their colonies for one reason or the other. But there were a few small island colonies, I now forget their names (of course I can find out if I can visit a good library), they didn’t want to be free because they were entirely dependent on the Government of United Kingdom for their livelihood. They were liabilities to the UK Government and the UK Government would have very much liked to get rid of them. I presume that it is not the case with the States of India I mention. Unlike the nameless islands I indicate above where the working population were mostly manual workers, Indians are today an elite nation, professionals in various fields besides being engaged in good farming and industrially progressing. And the majority of the population owe allegiance to established religions. Assam’s case look pathetic because of a number of things. Somebody rightly mentioned in these mails, there are no Assamese in Assam: who do you want to be sovereign? For example, when the Official Language Act was passed it was passed as a working bilingual or trilingual Act (Assamese, Bengali and English: you can add Hindi to it as well). Don’t despair. At the moment I suppose Assam does have a bare majority of Assamese speaking people. Assuming that Assam is sovereign, she can follow the lessons of Saudi Arabia and Dubai.And Malaysia. The economies of these countries are practically run by expatriate labour. But these expatriates have no right to citizenship and constitute no threat to local inhabitants. What
about the language? Do the expatriates learn Arabic? Some do but I understand
the natives are trying to learn the language of the expatriates as
well.
Bhuban
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