The Importance of Refugees in India

The Assam government in 1964 brings in a piece of legislation which is called the Foreigners Tribunal Order. These tribunals are active from about late 1969 till March 1973 at which point they wound up. This is also the period when another capitalism happens in the subcontinent is the 1971 war and the flow of approximately 10 million refugees from Bangladesh into India. The Indian governments own resolution and desire to ensure that these people went back was ultimately the reason why they went to war right because you wanted to create conditions where those refugees go back said Gandhi.