"If we open the door [to the Bengali Hindu refugees], we all will sink."
— Jawaharlal Nehru

January 1, 1970

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Original Language: English

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In 1950. Nehru to B. C. Roy. Quoted in Roy A. C. (198AD). Genocide of hindus & buddhists in east pakistan (bangladesh). : quoted in Kamra A. J. (2000). The prolonged partition and its pogroms : testimonies on violence against Hindus in East Bengal 1946-64. pp. 180