![]() ![]() Tensions ran high in the Brahmaputra Valley, where Assamese mobs attacked Sylheti settlements. In April, 1960, a proposal was raised at the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee, to declare Assamese as the one and only official language of the state. ![]() The main incident, in which 11 people were killed by State police, took place on 19th May 1961. In the Barak Valley, the Bengali speaking population constituted a majority. ![]() The Bengali Language Movement: It is movement of it’s kind ,where Sylheti –Community People fought a Language which is not their mother-tongue.The Sylhetis have their own Sylheti-Nagari Language.The Bengali Language Movement in Barak Valley,Assam was a protest against the decision of the Government of Assam to make Assamese the only official language of the state even though a significant proportion of the population were Bengali speaking. ![]()
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