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→History: BOLDly removing section per talk page- this article is at AfD in part because of its extreme disorganization in covering the title topic, and while this section is well sourced it has ZERO anchor in "anti Bengali sentiment" as motivation for the events
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'''Discrimination against Bengalis in India''' comprises negative attitudes and views on [[Bengalis]] in India. Though Bengalis have lived in different parts of India for centuries, they are subject to widespread discrimination. This can be either by any other community (e.g. [[Gujaratis]], [[Biharis]],<ref name="auto12">{{cite news |title=The Lost World |url=https://www.dailypioneer.com/2013/sunday-edition/the-lost-world.html |access-date=22 September 2023 |work=Pioneer |date=7 July 2013}}</ref> [[Assamese people|Assamese]],<ref name="auto11">{{cite news |last1=Bhattacharjee |first1=Manash Firaq |title=We foreigners: What it means to be Bengali in India's Assam |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2020/2/26/we-foreigners-what-it-means-to-be-bengali-in-indias-assam |access-date=22 September 2023 |work=Al Jazeera |date=26 February 2020}}</ref> tribal communities,<ref name="auto3">{{Cite news|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/indiascope/story/19800630-turmoil-in-north-east-india-turns-into-armed-uprising-in-tripura-821236-2014-01-24|title=Turmoil in North-east India turns into armed uprising in Tripura|newspaper=[[India Today]]}}</ref><ref name="auto13">{{Cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/north-east-india/tripura/tripura-bengali-people-nagorik-suraksha-mancha-6210312/|title=Tribals in state 'foreigners', Bengalis original inhabitants, claims Tripura social group|date=10 January 2020|website=The Indian Express}}</ref><ref name="auto7">{{cite book|title='Bearing Witness': The Impact of Conflict on Women in Nagaland and Assam|year=2011|publisher=Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research|page=42}}</ref> etc.) or in any particular place (see article further), due to reasons like inhabitation,<ref name="auto8">{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/brus-vs-non-tribal-bengalis-its-a-clash-among-the-displaced-in-tripura/article30883079.ece|title=Brus vs non-tribal Bengalis: It's a clash among the displaced in Tripura|first=Rahul|last=Karmakar|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=22 February 2020}}</ref> discriminating sentiments,<ref name="auto9"/><ref name="auto">{{cite book|last=Bhaumik|first=Subir|editor=Samir Kumar Das|title=Blisters on their Feet|url=http://203.128.31.71/articles/076193653X.pdf|access-date=5 March 2014|year=2008|publisher=Sage|isbn=978-81-7829-819-1|page=303|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140305182014/http://203.128.31.71/articles/076193653X.pdf|archive-date=5 March 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[#Accused political parties|political reasons]], Government actions,<ref name="auto4">{{Cite web|url=https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/who-are-the-brus-and-what-are-the-implications-of-settling-them-in-tripura/article30600913.ece|title=Who are the Brus, and what are the implications of settling them in Tripura?|first=Rahul|last=Karmakar|date=20 January 2020|website=Thehindu.com}}</ref><ref name="abc"/><ref name="auto9">{{Cite web|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2018/6/23/harassed-discriminated-story-of-assams-bengali-origin-people|title='We're sons of the soil, don't call us Bangladeshis'|first=Saif|last=Khalid|website=Aljazeera.com}}</ref> anti-Bangladeshi sentiment<ref name="auto20">{{Cite web|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/star-literature/news/story-bengal-and-bengalis-the-bengali-homeland-and-its-inhabitants-2168056|title=Story of Bengal and Bengalis: The Bengali Homeland and its Inhabitants|date=4 September 2021|website=The Daily Star}}</ref> etc. The discriminative condition of Bengalis can be traced from [[Khoirabari massacre]], [[Nellie massacre]], [[Silapathar massacre]], [[North Kamrup massacre]], [[Goreswar massacre]], [[Bongal Kheda]] etc. This has led to emergence of [[Bengali language movement in India|Bengali sub-nationalism]] in India as a form of protest and formation of many pro-Bengali organisations in India.
 
== History ==
=== Attacks by Marathas in 18th century ===
The Hindu Maratha warriors invaded and occupied [[West Bengal|western Bengal]] up to the [[Hooghly River]].<ref name="Marshall72">{{cite book|title=Bengal: The British Bridgehead: Eastern India 1740–1828|author=P. J. Marshall|author-link=P. J. Marshall|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|year=2006|page=72|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lIZrfokYSY8C&pg=PA72|isbn=9780521028226}}</ref> During that period of invasion by the Marathas, warriors called as "[[Bargi]]s", perpetrated atrocities against the local population,<ref name="Marshall72"/> against [[Hindu]] [[Bengalis]] and [[Biharis]].<ref name="Marshall72"/> As reported in [[Bardhaman Raj|Burdwan Kingdom's]] and European sources, the Bargis are said to have plundered villages,<ref name="Davies"/> and Jan Kersseboom, chief of the [[Dutch East India Company]] factory in Bengal, estimated that perhaps 400,000 Hindu civilians in Western Bengal and Bihar were dead owing to the invasion of Bargis.<ref name="Marshall73"/><ref name="Chaudhuri253">{{cite book|author=Kirti N. Chaudhuri|author-link=Kirti N. Chaudhuri|title=The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company: 1660–1760|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|year=2006|page=253|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9xt7Fgzq9e8C&pg=PA253|isbn=9780521031592}}</ref> The resulting casualties of Bargi onslaught against in Bengal are considered to be among the deadliest massacres in Indian history.<ref name="Davies">{{cite book |author=C. C. Davies |year=1957 |chapter=Chapter XXIII: Rivalries in India |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7ejh1RnNDt4C&pg=PG555 |editor=J. O. Lindsay |editor-link=J. O. Lindsay |title=The New Cambridge Modern History |title-link=The New Cambridge Modern History |volume=VII: The Old Regime 1713–63 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=555 |isbn=978-0-521-04545-2}}</ref> According to the 18th-century Bengali text ''Maharashtra Purana'' written by Gangaram:<ref name="Marshall72"/>
 
{{blockquote|They shouted over and over again, 'Give us money', and when they got no money they filled peoples' nostrils with water, and some they seized and drowned in tanks, and many died of suffocation. In this way they did all manner of foul and evil deeds. When they demanded money and it was not given to them, they would put the man to death. Those who had money gave it, those who had none were killed.}}
 
According to the Bengali text ''Maharashtra Purana'':<ref name="Marshall72"/>
 
{{blockquote|Durga ordered her followers to be gracious to the Muslim Nawab and oppose the Marathas, because the evil-minded ones had killed Brahmans and Vaisnavas.}}
 
This devastated Bengal's economy, as many of the people killed in the Bargi raids included merchants, [[textile]] weavers,<ref name="Chaudhuri253"/> [[silk]] winders, and [[mulberry]] cultivators.<ref name="Marshall73"/> The [[Cossimbazar]] factory reported in 1742, for example, that the Bargis burnt down many of the houses where silk piece goods were made, along with weavers' [[loom]]s.<ref name="Chaudhuri253"/>
 
British writer [[Robert Orme]] reported that the Marathas caused so much distress to the local population that many of them "were continually taking flight" in large numbers to [[Calcutta]] whenever they heard rumours of the Marathas coming.<ref name="Marshall73">{{cite book|title=Bengal: The British Bridgehead: Eastern India 1740–1828|author=P. J. Marshall|author-link=P. J. Marshall|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|year=2006|page=73|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lIZrfokYSY8C&pg=PA73|isbn=9780521028226}}</ref> Many of the Bengali Hindus in western Bengal also fled to take shelter in [[East Bengal]], fearing for their lives in the wake of the Maratha attacks.<ref name="hussain">{{cite book|title=History of Bangladesh, 1704-1971|volume=2|author=Aklam Hussain|publisher=[[University of Michigan]], [[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]]|year=1997|page=80|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=53ZuAAAAMAAJ|isbn=9789845123372}}</ref>
 
The further attacks took place in 1748 in Bihar, on Murshidabad in 1750, and in 1751 in Western Bengal.<ref name="Habib">{{cite book | last1=Habib | first1=I. | last2=Panikkar | first2=K.N. | last3=Byres | first3=T.J. | last4=Patnaik | first4=U. | title=The Making of History: Essays Presented to Irfan Habib | publisher=Anthem Press | series=Anthem South Asian studies | year=2002 | isbn=978-1-84331-038-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ejrBraqBaLQC&pg=PA233 | page=233}}</ref>
 
The internal fights within the Alivardi Khan's military also contributed to their losses. For example, in 1748 Pathan soldiers rebelled and seized Patna which they controlled for some time. Another example is the ''faujdar'' of Purnea who departed from Alivardi and created a small autonomous state.<ref>{{cite book | last=Markovits | first=C. | title=A History of Modern India, 1480–1950 | publisher=Anthem Press | series=Anthem South Asian Studies | year=2004 | isbn=978-1-84331-152-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r2OKvG5wbaAC&pg=PA194 | access-date=2022-03-18 | page=194}}</ref>
Apart from territorial losses, the Nawab of Bengal also suffered severe economic losses. Industries such as agriculture and trade were dislocated and a large number of people migrated from Western Bengal to Northern and Eastern districts.<ref name="Mahajan">{{cite book | last=Mahajan | first=VD | title=Modern Indian History | publisher=S. Chand Limited | year=2020 | isbn=978-93-5283-619-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vDscEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA42 | quote=However, the Marathas were the greatest menace to Ali Vardi Khan. There were as many as five Maratha invasions in 1742, 1743, 1744, 1745 and 1748.| page=42}}</ref>
 
==Assam==
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