Needless to say that most of the refugees into Assam from East Pakistan were Bengali Hindus – the persecuted religious minority in Islamic Pakistan ruled by modern and politicised armed forces. The partition made their position extremely vulnerable. ...[T]heir existence with dignity, both actual and perceptional, propelled their movement across the border.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Needless to say that most of the refugees into Assam from East Pakistan were Bengali Hindus – the persecuted religious minority in Islamic Pakistan ruled by modern and politicised armed forces. The partition made their position extremely vulnerable. ...[T]heir existence with dignity, both actual and perceptional, propelled their movement across the border." in the context of "Hussain, Monirul. ‘Refugees in the Face of Emerging Ethnicity in North-East India: An Overview’. Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences II, no. 1 (1995): 123–29 quoted in Nani Gopal Mahanta - Citizenship Debate over NRC and CAA_ Assam and the Politics of History (2021, SAGE Publications India)188" to mean that wisdom is timeless.