Bengali Muslims in Assam and ‘Miyah’ Poetry: Walking on the Shifting Terrains of ‘Na-Asamiya’ and ‘Infiltrator’

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The Northeast Indian state of Assam has a very long and complex history of migration, whether it be Santhals from the Chhotanagpur plateau to work in the tea plantations under the British administration, the Marwaris from Rajasthan for trade, or the Bengalis from erstwhile East Bengal, now Bangladesh, as farm hands or agricultural labourers and farmers.