M.A. Jinnah and the Assam Crisis: Eviction Reports and Political Mobilization

Sub title : Correspondence and Reports from the Assam Provincial Muslim League on the Eviction Crisis

Subject: Regional Politics | Land Rights | Immigrant Settlers | Congress-Muslim League Conflict | Provincial Administration.

Date of publication: 1946

Language: English

Page: 9 p.

Source: National Archives of Pakistan

Serial no: 27879

Keyword: M.A. Jinnah -- Assam Provincial Muslim League -- Eviction Policy -- Immigrant Settlers -- Congress Government | Land Rights -- Political Crisis -- 1946 -- Provincial Report -- Organizing Committee.

Abstract: This collection consists of a detailed report and related correspondence from the Assam Provincial Muslim League to Qaid-i-Azam M.A. Jinnah, documenting a severe political and humanitarian crisis in 1946. The report accuses the Congress-led provincial government of implementing a brutal "eviction policy" against immigrant Muslim settlers, involving forced displacement, house demolitions, crop destruction, and mass prosecutions. It describes the League's relief efforts, the tense atmosphere on the ground, and warns of an inevitable large-scale clash if the policy continues. Accompanying documents show Jinnah's subsequent appointment of an Organizing Committee to strengthen the League's structure within the province, linking the local crisis directly to the national political struggle.

Description: This is a set of scanned documents from the Assam Provincial Muslim League, providing a ground-level perspective on a critical regional conflict during the final year of British India. The core report, dated November 1946, is a direct appeal to M.A. Jinnah, detailing the grievances of Muslim immigrants and the confrontational policies of the Gopinath Bardoloi-led Congress ministry. It serves as a stark example of how provincial governance issues were intimately connected to the larger national power struggle between the Congress and the Muslim League. The subsequent pages showing the formation of an Organizing Committee by Jinnah demonstrate the central leadership's direct response to provincial crises, highlighting the League's efforts to consolidate its political apparatus across British India on the eve of Partition. SCANNED BY: NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF PAKISTAN.

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