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...India's northeastern state of Assam, there has been a year of student-ledagitation against "foreigners" in their midst, including Indians from the state of West Bengal as well as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. The ongoing strife has paralyzed the state's oil industry, which supplies 12% of India's needs The student protest in Assam has been restrained by comparison with a savage outbreak of hatred against Bengalis in the neighboring state of Tripura; last June native tribespeople massacred more than 1,000 Bengali settlers...
...hamstrung by an ever increasing oil import bill, which consumes 60% of the country's export income. India depended on Iraq and Iran for roughly two-thirds of its oil imports; with those supplies restricted by the Persian Gulf war, and domestic production cut by the disruptions in Assam, New Delhi has had to scramble for new sources of oil, including the spot market. Although monetary restrictions and liberalized imports have reduced India's inflation rate from 22% in January to 15% today, such commodities as sugar (52? a lb.), and lentils (45? to 50? a lb.), have...
Even before the Tripura massacre, similar troubles had erupted in the neighboring state of Assam. The native Assamese, afraid they might be outvoted by Bengali immigrants, forced the cancellation of elections in January. By April, agitation for the expulsion of all "foreigners" intensified. The movement spread to Tripura, where Bengali settlers opposed a measure aimed at returning disputed farm lands to the tribes...
Lack of Concern. Shitala's scourge has been particularly felt in the states of Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Assam. Yet no where has the goddess lashed harder than in Bihar. With 70,393 reported cases, that state accounts for 60% of the world's current total of known smallpox victims...
...drive for Bangla Desh (an independent Bengali State). Immediately after fighting broke out between the fierce Pathans and Punjabis of the Pakistani army and the Bengali liberation forces, 1,500,000 terrified East Pakistanis-Moslems and Hindus alike -crossed into the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, Assam, Meghalaya and Bihar. Now the escapees are mostly Hindu, and they bring tales of torture, rape and massacre. According to the new arrivals, the Pakistani government is blaming the 10 million Hindus of East Pakistan (population 78 million) for being the principal supporters of the now-outlawed Awami League of Sheik Mujibur...