[1] The massacre was part of a pre-planned pogrom, organized in a meeting of the local Teachers' Association.

During and after the independence of India movement, Bengali Hindus were ethnically cleansed in the Indian state of Assam.

After the partition riots, the next major ethnic conflagration in Assam occurred during the Bengali language movement in 1960.

On 3 July an Assamese mob of 15,000, armed with guns and other weapons, raided Bengali shops and houses.

Nearly 50,000 Bengali Hindus had crossed over to West Bengal to seek shelter by late August 1960.