Bongal Kheda

[7] A significant period of property damage, ethnic policing and even instances of street violence occurred in the region.

[13] In May 1948, ethnic tension escalated between the Assamese people and the Bengali Hindus in the Paan bazaar area of Guwahati, which soon spread to different parts of Assam.

Sarat Chandra Sinha, the Congress MLA who would later be the Chief minister of Assam, is known to have rallied in different parts of Goalpara district and made provocative speeches against the Bengali Hindus, instigating mob violence against them.

A petrol pump on the main road between Maligaon and Guwahati, the largest city in Assam, was set on fire.

The 1979 agitation witnessed frequent curfews and strikes called by the All Assam Students Union (AASU) and other organisations belonging to the local community.

One incident that happened where a young Assamese man, a school dropout in his early 20s, who used to reside in Maligaon locality.

He stabbed his own childhood Bengali friend, who had just joined the Indian Air Force, to death in the middle of the street.

The District Magistrate of Guwahati who happened to be a Bengali Hindu was attacked by a mob of around 100 people inside his residence and stabbed.

[28] In 1959, Sukomal Purakayastha, who was later martyred during the Bengali Language Movement in 1961, was forced to wind up his business in Dibrugarh and flee to Barak Valley.

This time the violence remained concentrated mostly in the lower Assam districts with minor outbreaks reported in Sibsagar and Dibrugarh.

Cases have been reported when tribals (Mishing people) were instigated to attack government sanctioned Bengali Hindu refugee settlements in the Lakhimpur district, resulting in horrendous massacres where Bengali babies were snatched from their mothers and thrown to fire, alive.

Extremely abusive graffiti targeting Bengali Hindus became a common hate spreading mechanism for the Assamese rioters.