Operation Lebensraum: Illegal Migration from Bangladesh
Ebook
The story of human migration is as old as the story of Homo sapiens. The innate tendency to survive and achieve better living conditions has proved to be an unending process. The ethnic groups with a very high growth of population have spread out all over the world for more living space spawning unforeseen socio-economic and socio-political unrest and conflict. Most prominent in this regard have been the migration from China and Bangladesh that has continued with increasing momentum since the past several decades.
Operation Lebensraum: Illegal Immigration from Bangladesh discusses the entire gamut of migration from Bangladesh into India with a focus on Assam – its origins during the colonial period and continuance during the post-Independence phase, impact, the government's failures to comprehend the nature of the problem and the ways and means to tackle the phenomenon which has already assumed an uncontrollable proportion and fuelled large scale disturbances. The book also draws a comparison of the episode with similar events around the world and especially the policies of the US government in tackling illegal migration from Mexico.
- Title: Operation Lebensraum: Illegal Migration from Bangladesh
- Author: Hiranya Bhattacharyya
- Publisher: Bloomsbury India
- Print Publication Date: 2018
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9789386643667, 9386643669
- Resource ID: LLS:9789386643667
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-04-05T09:22:14Z
Hiranya Kumar Bhattacharyya is an ex-IPS officer of Assam cadre. He has dealt with the problem of illegal migration from East Pakistan/Bangladesh for a very long time which also involved detection and deportation of these alien citizens. During the War of Liberation (1971), he trained two batches of Mukti Bahini for which he was awarded the prestigious Friends of Liberation War Honour by the Bangladesh government in 2013. Years later, he became actively involved with the historic Assam Movement and was imprisoned twice for such involvement. Bhattacharyya is also a columnist and author of several novels and socio-economic treatises. He is passionately engaged with angling and rose gardening.