Suidpto Mondal sits down with political scientist Dr Navine Murshid to discuss the origins of the Bengali Muslim community ...

(RNS) — In India’s northeastern state of Assam, a brutal campaign of displacement is underway. Thousands of families, mostly Bengali-origin Muslims, have been stripped of their homes, their ...

I wrote this book before the July uprising, so the issues I discuss are not new developments but part of a much longer process.

In India, thousands of Bengali speakers are being detained as suspected Bangladeshis and some are arbitrarily deported – without any legal process whatsoever. On July 19, Samirul Islam, a member of ...

India has pushed hundreds of ethnic Bengali-speaking Muslims into Bangladesh without due process, Human Rights Watch said on July 24, accusing the government of flouting rules and fuelling bias on ...

The word ‘Miya’ has been reappropriated as a derogatory term Anti-Muslim rhetoric has a long history in Assam, but this sentiment has been further fueled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led ...

The authorities in Assam’s Nagaon district on Saturday launched an eviction drive to clear encroachments from 795 hectares of reserved forest land, where about 1,500 families – all of them ...