[Assam] Demands for Separate states in India

[BBaruah at aol.com]

Since the fifties or so sixties Great Britain decided to get rid of their  
colonies for one reason or the other. But there were a few small island  
colonies, I now forget their names (of course I can find out if I can visit a  good 
library), they didn’t want to be free because they were entirely dependent  on 
the Government of United Kingdom for their livelihood. They were liabilities  
to the UK Government and the UK Government would have very much liked to get 
rid  of them. 
I presume that it is not the case with the States of India I mention.  Unlike 
the nameless islands I indicate above where the working population were  
mostly manual workers, Indians are today an elite nation, professionals in  
various fields besides being engaged in good farming and industrially  progressing. 
And the majority of the population owe allegiance to established  religions.  
Assam’s case look pathetic because of a number of things.  Somebody rightly 
mentioned in these mails, there are no Assamese in Assam: who  do you want to 
be sovereign? For example, when the Official Language Act was  passed it was 
passed as a working bilingual or trilingual Act (Assamese, Bengali  and English: 
you can add Hindi to it as well).      
Don’t despair. At the moment I suppose Assam does have a bare majority of  
Assamese speaking people. Assuming that Assam is sovereign, she can follow the  
lessons of Saudi Arabia and Dubai.And Malaysia. The economies of these 
countries  are practically run by expatriate labour. But these expatriates have no 
right to  citizenship and constitute no threat to local inhabitants. 
What  about the language? Do the expatriates learn Arabic? Some do but I 
understand  the natives are trying to learn the language of the expatriates as  
well.
 
Bhuban
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