19 May 1961, A Forgotten Day

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19 MAY 1961 "A FORGOTTEN DAY" ... BLACK GEL PEN ON PAPER ... 12 INCH * 8 INCH ... 2007-2015 .... he Bengali Language Movement in Barak Valley, Assam was a protest against the decision of the Government of Assam to make Assamese the only official language of the state even though a significant proportion of the population were Bengali speaking. In the Barak Valley, the Bengali speaking population constituted a majority. The main incident, in which 11 people were killed by State police, took place on 19 May 1961. In April, 1960, a proposal was raised at the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee, to declare Assamese as the one and only official language of the state.[1][broken citation] Tensions ran high in the Brahmaputra Valley, where Assamese mobs attacked Bengali Hindu settlements. The violence reached its peak between July and September, during which an estimated 50,000 Bengali Hindus fled the Brahmaputra Valley and arrived in West Bengal. Another 90,000 fled to Barak Valley and