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The Assam movement was a combination of cultural pride and economic backwardness. Explain.

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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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One of Hazarika’s songs ....... dwells on the unity theme; the seven states of north-eastern India become seven sisters born of the same mother .... ‘Meghalaya went own way ...... Arunachal too separated and Mizoram appeared in Assam’s gateway as a groom to marry another daughter,’ ......... The song ends with a determination to keep the unity of the Assamese with other smaller nationalities that are left in the present-day Assam– ‘the Karbis and the Missing brothers and sisters are our dear ones.’ —Sanjib Baruah

(a) Which unity is the poet talking about ?

(b) Why were the States of North-East created separately out of the erstwhile State of Assam ?

(c) Do you think that the same theme of unity could apply to all the regions of India ? Why ?

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Which is the main issue of dispute between India and Pakistan ?

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