07-28-2005, 06:10 PM
G.Subramaniam I think Sylhet is Hindu majority, this is what Varsha Bhosle says in one of her columns:
"Take the Partition-time tale of Cachar, theBengali-speaking region of Assam bordering Bangladesh: The Hindu majority border region of Sylhet went to East Pakistan because the Assam Congress leadership didn't want a Bengali dominated region in Assam. Naturally, riots and persecution across the border led to a mass exodus of Bengali Hindus into Cachar (which already had a sizable Bengali population), turning it into a Bengali-majority region."
http://www.rediff.com/news/1998/apr/23varsha.htm
"Take the Partition-time tale of Cachar, theBengali-speaking region of Assam bordering Bangladesh: The Hindu majority border region of Sylhet went to East Pakistan because the Assam Congress leadership didn't want a Bengali dominated region in Assam. Naturally, riots and persecution across the border led to a mass exodus of Bengali Hindus into Cachar (which already had a sizable Bengali population), turning it into a Bengali-majority region."
http://www.rediff.com/news/1998/apr/23varsha.htm