"A 1992 report prepared by B.B. Dutta for the North-Eastern Congress Coordination Committee meeting in Guwahati looked into both types of immigration and notes: "Between 1971 and 1981, Bangladesh census records show a reduction of 39 lakhs in the minority population. "Between 1981-89, 36 lakh religious minorities were missing from that country."
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