What the records say
- When
- May 1948
- Kind
- Riot
- Coordinates
- 26.18° N, 91.75° E
- Description
- ethnic rioting to protest Bengali Hindus
Placed at the town its title names, Guwahati.
1948 Guwahati riots
Ethnic rioting to protest Bengali Hindus
In May 1948, widespread rioting broke out in Guwahati and adjoining areas where Bengali Hindu businesses, schools and residences in general and Bengali Hindu staff of the Bengal and Assam Railway in particular were attacked. The Assamese Hindu nationalists who saw the Bengali Hindus as foreign usurpers in the territory of Assam led the attacks while Muslim League members joined them.
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