ABSTRACT
Except for a few research papers that happened to focus on the impact of Partition on the Sylheti Partition-migrants to Assam, there is hardly any exclusive research on the Partition's effect on Assam. The Assam Association, a political organization established in 1903, agitated against the scheme of the clubbing of Eastern Bengal and Assam together within the same province, following the Partition of Bengal in 1905. Lord Mountbatten's Partition-plan announced on the 3 June 1947, provided for a referendum, to be held in the supposedly Muslim-predominant Sylhet district of Assam, to decide whether it should remain a part of the Indian province of Assam or amalgamate with the so-called Muslim part of Bengal, i.e. East-Pakistan. The district of Sylhet historically had been all through a part of Bengal. It was incorporated into the Province of Assam only when the latter was made a Chief Commissioner’s province in 1874. .
