Chapter Three

1. The references here to Humboldt’s work are taken from Aaron Sach’s essay, ‘Humboldt’s Legacy and the Restoration of Science’, World Watch, March/April 1992

2. State of the World, World Watch Institute, 1999

3. Interview with author, Kanpur, 1995

4. B.G. Verghese, Waters of Hope, Oxford & IBH, 1990

Chapter Four

1. Sanjoy Hazarika, Strangers of the Mist, Viking/Penguin, 1994; also see the private papers of Sir Mohammad Saadulla and of Gopinath Bardoloi, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi

2. Sanjib Baruah, India Against Itself: Assam and the Politics of Nationality, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999

3. Baruah, S. ibid.

4. Arun Shoune, ‘Assam elections: come what may,’ India Today, 12 May 1983

5. Interview with police official, Tezpur, February 1998. Sonitpur has been long viewed as a bastion of ‘Assamese’ culture. The great singer Bhupen Hazarika has his roots here.

6. ibid.

7. Rajmohan Gandhi, Understanding the Muslim Mind, Penguin Books, New Delhi, 1987.

8. Ibid.

9. Ibid.

10. Revenge and Reconciliation: Understanding South Asian History, Penguin Books, 1999

Chapter Six

1. Interview with author, New Delhi, 5 May 2000

2. Interview with author, New Delhi, May 2000.

3. Ibid.

4. Sanjib Baruah, India Against Itself; Assam and the Politics of Nationality, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999, p 119

5. V.S. Jafa, ‘Insurgency and the Problem of the Migration: the North East in a Historical Perspective’. Unpublished paper, 1999.

6. C.S. Mullen, Census of Assam, 1931.

7. Ibid.

8. Penderel Moon, ed. Wavell; The Viceroy’s Journal, London: Oxford University Press, 1978

Chapter Seven

1. Nicholas Van Hear, New Diasporas: the Mass Exodus Dispersal and Regrouping of Migrant Communities, London: UCL Press, 1998

2. Ibid.

3. Astri Sukhre, Pressure Points: Environmental Degradation, Migration and Conflict, American Academy of Arts & Science, Toronto University, April 1993.

4. Essam El-Hinnawi, Environmental Refugees, United Nations Development Programme, 1985.

5. Sergio Diaz-Briquets, ‘Reltionships Between US Foreign Policies and US Immigration Policies’ in Threatened Peoples, Threatened Borders—World Migration and US Policy, ed. Michael S. Teitelbaum & Myron Weiner, New York: W.W. Norton

6. Ibid.

7. Environmentally-Induced Population Displacements and Environmental Impacts Resulting from Mass Migrations, Symposium Summary, 21-24 April 1996, Chavannes-de-Bogis, Switzerland.

8. Ibid.

9. Norman Myers, ‘Environmentally-Indued Displacements: The State of the Art.’ Paper read at international symposium on environmentally-induced population displacements and environmental impacts resulting from mass migrations. Geneva, April 1996.

10. Ibid.

11. Weiner Myron, ‘Rejected Peoples and Unwanted Migrants: The Impact of Migration on the Politics and Security of South Asia,’ Paper read at MIT, December 1991.