For information to all, Willem van Schendel, an academician of University of Amstardam has written a book called, The Bengal Borderland, published by Anthem South Asian Studies. The whole book is relevant for study of migration, but Chapter 9 -'Migration, Fences and Deportation' may be of particular interest in the view of the discussion on illegal migration. The book is priced for Rs.395/. A must read for those who are concerned of the issue.
Best anjuman ----- Original Message ---- From: Mrinal Talukdar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: assamonline <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, 22 August, 2008 3:35:03 PM Subject: [asom] Hard truth & Bangladeshi Dear All Appreciating the emotion behind the Infiltration cause, language census statistic Excel file(source Census India) for you all to decipher and understand the realpolitik. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/assamonline/files/misc/C-16.XLS The actual world outside this blog is different. Infiltration was there and I once again think it is far more less in the one and half decade than the previous one. I live in Guwahati and as a professional journalist of past two decades working very closely with AASU, BSF and all political parties beside being a former hard core Assam agitation worker, I have convinced myself that infiltration is much less in the past decade .(You are free to have have your own opinion and I shall respect that) Sporadic infiltration is still there but I refuse to believe there are large scale infiltration in the past 15 years. It is simply not possible. There is a confusion between PUSHBACK and DEPORTATION. Over the past quarter of a century hardly 1000 have been deported and several more thousand have been pushed back. The convict Bangladeshi is taken to the nearest border point by a constable of Assam Politics. First BSF is informed by Assam Police with the court document. Then BSF contact BDR. BDR collects the court document and contact their police who in turn send their own men to the particular village inside Bangladesh of the convict to find out whether he has any relatives or not or whether the judgment of Indian court is correct or not. All these take anything between 5-15 days. During the period the convict Bangladeshi is supposed to be with the poor constable who is not given any money to take care of the Bangladeshi for that period. There is no arrangement for their stay and food during the period. Finally the frustrated and harassed constable with the help of sympathetic BSF jawan, at the dead of night simply push back the Bangladeshi to Bangladesh. That is the difference between Push Back or Deportation. There are Bangladeshis but the general perception of terming everyone from the immigrant Muslims as Bangladeshis are very dangerous. For your benefit I am attaching Census Language Data in Excel File please decipher and find out in your own Sub Division of Tehshil what is happening behind your back. Solution Try to make Assam a tribal state. Or create more tribal councils and ensure that voting rights of Bangladeshis are curtailed. * Attn Samujjal: You collect the census data from my office. I have made a CD for you. Regards Mrinal Talukdar ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/assamonline/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/assamonline/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
