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 official count of the dead in what came to be called the Nellie massacre is 1,819; the unofficial estimates are more than double that. But to those who were there, such as Hussain, the precise ...

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 ...

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.

‘What the Fields Remember’, Subasri Krishnan’s film on the horrors of the Nellie massacre of 1982, suggest that victims carry the burden of remembering mass violence.

When an eruption of violence in Assam led to an estimated 3,000 being killed in the Nellie massacre of 1983. Finally, the devastating impact of the 2010 tsunami in Chile and a woman who survived it.