The Nellie massacre—in which India’s now governing party, the Hindu supremacist BJP, played a major role—was the outcome of a campaign of communal incitement targeting “illegal foreigners ...

And then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was later asked why she had not responded promptly to the Nellie massacre. “One has to let such events take their course before stepping in,” she replied.

February 18 marked 42 years of the Nellie Massacre. It stands as the most extreme example of violence rooted in the divide between insiders and outsiders, majoritarians and minoritarians and ...

The Nellie massacre is one of the least discussed communal massacres in India. In Assam, however, it is a determinant event that is intimately tied to the political history of Assamese nationalism.

The Nellie massacre, as it eventually came to be known, remains even today on the margins of India’s public history and memory June 26, 2025 e-Paper LOGIN Account ...

This short story about the Nellie massacre is by Assam’s best-known ‘Miya poetry’ writer Hafiz Ahmed Read ‘Jiaur Master’s Memorandum’ by Hafiz Ahmed, translated from the Assamese by ...

Makiko Kimura, author of the recently published “The Nellie Massacre”, tells us that the killings would not have happened if the elections had not been imposed on a tense and divided society ...

The Nellie massacre on 18 February 1983 was the worst bloodshed in the country since Indian independence in 1947. It is estimated that 3,000 people died that day.

Annalisa was a part of the team with St Teresa that visited Nellie in Nagaon district, about 100 km from Guwahati, to reach out to victims of the massacre.