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Extracts From The Report Of The Commission Of Inquiry On Communal Disturbances
Ranchi-Hatia (August 22 -29 - 1967), Chairman-Justice Raghubar Dayal.
2.22 The causes of the communal tension, as given by the different persons in their written statements can be summed up as follows:-
1. Partition of the Country in 1947:
(a) Distrust of the Muslims by Hindus on account of the feeling that in the struggle for independence the Muslims betrayed them and got the Country partitioned:
(b) Subsequent treatment of Hindus in Pakistan. and
(c) Suspicion of persons of the community having sympathies with or acting as spies for Pakistan or showing leanings towards Pakistan during the 1965 Indo Pakistan war.
II. Aptitude of some Muslims indicating their separatism from the majority community e.g., movements for reservation of posts for separate institutions etc.
III. Difference among the constituent members of the United Front Government in Bihar in matters of policy, especially with respect to making Urdu as Second Official Language of the State.
IV. The attitude of the party in the Opposition to topple the United Front Government.
V. The declaration of the Policy of the administration about the action to be taken by the authorities in dealing with law and order situation.
VI. Attitude of the RSS and Jan Sangh towards the Muslims.
VII. Local reasons, some of which have already been dealt with in connection with the immediate causes.
Authors : Shri M. Rama Jois
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