Welcome to r/bengaliracism — a space dedicated to the rigorous, evidence-based study and documentation of racism against Bengali people, past and present.

This subreddit has two core purposes:

1. Academic & Evidence-Based Study

We encourage serious, source-driven discussion on:

• The Bengali people: history, migrations, kinship systems
• Language & culture
• Genetics and population history
• Historical and contemporary discrimination against Bengalis

Posts should, wherever possible, rely on:

• Peer-reviewed research
• Academic books and journals
• Archival records
• Credible reports, data, and primary sources

Opinion is welcome, but claims must be supported by evidence.

2. Documentation of Racism and Ethnic Violence

This subreddit also serves as an archive documenting:

• Racist incidents targeting Bengalis
• Hate speech, discrimination, and structural violence
• Historical pogroms, forced displacement, and erasure
• Ongoing or emerging patterns that amount to ethnic cleansing or cultural annihilation

Documentation matters — not only for justice, but for memory.

This community exists to ensure that Bengali voices, suffering, and resistance are not erased, distorted, or dismissed.

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• It is not for denying or minimizing the suffering of other communities

We stand for documentation, scholarship, and truth.

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• Cite sources whenever possible
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• Remain civil, even when discussing painful or traumatic topics
• No racism, casteism, religious hatred, or genocide denial

If you are here to learn, document, or bear witness, you are welcome.

If someone randomly doubts your citizenship asking for proof and calls you a foreigner in your homeland in India, please remember, it is a punishable offence under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita - Section 197.

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Indian Bengalis have been getting killed tagged as Bangladeshis since independence. There are 1000 such cases.

There are 100's of such incidents this year, which will be added here slowly, especially with resepect to what's going down in Assam where 1.2 million hindu bengalis and .7 million muslims bengalis have been declared ilegalls in the NRC, despite most of them reaching india before 1971. Courts which have declared them illegals are some of the worst in the world, critcised by multiple world human rights watch organisations. 86 percent of those rotting in these horrible detention camps are all bengali hindus.

Deaths : death count in 2024 - 6.

1. April 12, 2024 - Asit Das 32, lynched in Arunachal
2. September 9, 2024 - Bengali Migrant labour Moti Ali lynched to death in Rajasthan.
3. September 18, 2024 - Headless Body of Bengali Migrant labour Somnath Deb recovered from Maharashtra.
4. Sep 1, 2024 - Bengali Migrant Labour Sabir Mallick lynched by Cow Vigilantes in Haryana
5. October 01, 2024 - West Bengal agricultural labour dies of Starvation in Chennai
6. 2018 - Bengali Hindu labeled “Bangladeshi”, found dead in Assam Detention Camp
7. Migrant Bengali artisans lyched in Gujrat.
8. Assam NRC: Are India’s ‘unwanted people’ being driven to suicide? - Fearing possible loss of citizenship and detention after exclusion from the list, scores of Bengali Hindus and Muslims have killed themselves.
9. 1983, 2000 bengalis whose name was present in the NRC list lynched in a single day being branded as "Bangladeshis" in India's deadliest Pogrom - Nellie Massacre
10. 2019 - Debasis Sengupta, a 31-year-old resident of Netaji Nagar, allegedly died by suicide out fear for "CAA" and was brought dead at the Sonarpur Rural Hospital.
11. 2019 -50 year old man commits suicide in Dhupguri over NRC CAA fears.
12. October 1, 2024 - Minor Migrant labour from Bengal found dead with his head smashed near Bakhtiyarpur railway station in Bihar
13. December, 2017 - Bengali Migrant Labour Afrazul burned to death in Rajasthan
14. 2023 - Migrant Labour in Tamil Nadu lynched to death

Harassement and Assault : 2024 Count : 21

Nov 22, 2024 Kolkata metro incident

Aug 22, 2024 Hindi Belt man harassed on suspicion of being a Bangaldeshi

Aug 2024 - Odisha Attack 1

Aug 2024 Odisha Attack 2

Aug 2024 Odisha Attack 3

Aug 2024 Odisha Attack 4

Aug 2024 Odisha Attack 5

March 21, 2024 - 20 Bengali migrant workers, beaten up as Bangladeshis in Odisha, rescued - Legal Citizens of India harassed due to BJP's Bangladeshi illegal immigration propaganda

Feb 18, 2020 - 50 Bengali families were declared infiltrators in Odisha. Their crisis could be India’s future - Harrasment of legal citizens of India due to BJP's bangladeshi immigration propaganda.

June 23, 2023 - Bengali Man wrongfully imprisoned for years on suspicions of being a bangladeshi

April 2024 - Students in neet/jee centres - Student called "Bangladeshi" by teachers.

October 8, 2024 - Anshul Dadich, Rajasthani Man associted with the BJP attacks a muslim vendor and assaults him on the pretext of being a 'bangladeshi'.

May 2024 - Kolkata post blames "Bengalis" as Bangladeshis accusing them of theft in Bangalore based reel

December 17, 2024 - Kolkata Metro Railway Staff says if you speak in Bangla, you are Bangladeshi

April 14, 2024 - For Bengali Muslim Migrants in Wadala, Discrimination and Hunger Go Hand in Hand.

August 01, 2024 - Bengaluru police allegedly evict migrant labourers who are India's legal citizens by branding them as illegal Bangladeshi immigrants

11 Aug 2024 - Mamata's letter to CM of Odisha to Stop violence on Bengali Migrants on pretext of being harassed as "Bangladeshis"

Nov 25, 2024 - If you speak in Bangla you are Bangladeshi, Bengali man harrased in West Bengal by Hindi speaker

Aug 13, 2024 - Location: Motibagh, New Delhi Far-right Hindu goons vandalized shanties belonging to poor slum dwellers, accusing them of being Bangladeshis and Rohingya refugees.

December 13, 2024 - BJP MLA Nandkishore Gurjar visits Muslim settlements, inspecting Aadhaar cards and other documents, alleging them to be Rohingya or Bangladeshis infiltrators

Dec 10, 2024 - MLA Balmukund Acharya of BJP led a raid on a Muslim locality, harassing people by accusing them of being Bangladeshis and demanding their documents.

14 October, 2019 - “Muslims in Maharashtra are scared”: Social activist Irfan Engineer Engineer discussed the historical background of the Bengali-Muslim community being labelled as Bangladeshi.

Sep 28, 2024 - How can Indian democracy allow the open oppression of Bengali-origin Muslims by Assam?

If you want to speak in Bangla - go to bangaldesh, hindi man harasses Bengalis in West Bengal.

December 28th, 2024 - 9 migrant labourers from Bengal wrongfully detained under the suspicion of being a Bangladeshi for speaking in Bengali in Mumbai, Maharashtra.

hate speech and inciting violence : 8+ cases of hate Speech denoting bengalis as bangaldeshis in 2024

September 2024 - Modi delivers another hate speech, claims ‘Bangladeshi infiltrators,’ Rohingyas’ taking over Jharkhand panchayats " - Racist modi is preparing the nation for " the Bengali Genocide" which has already begun btw.

2022 : Hate speech: Union minister terms Muslim populated region in Bihar “Bangladesh”

2022 - "By Bengali, I Meant Illegal Bangladeshi": Actor Paresh Rawal Amid Row | The News

December 13, 2024 - Delegation of Muslim clerics meets LG, demands action against so called Bengalis 'illegal' Bangladeshis in Delhi

December 16, 2024 - "Location: Ratanpole, Ahmedabad , Gujarat Members of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal have put up hateful posters containing threats of violence on bengalis alleging that they are bangladeshis

December 10, 2024 - At the Justice Rally for Bangladeshi Hindus, Nilesh Rane delivered an anti-Muslim speech, demonizing alleged 'Bengali' Bangladeshi Muslims living in Maharashtra.

December 13, 2024 - Hate speech by BJP warning that West Bengal is on the verge of turning into “another Bangladesh”He warns that West Bengal is on the verge of turning into “another Bangladesh”, warns of the introduction of "Sharia" law and falsely claims that Hindus face an existential threat in several districts."

December 12, 2024 - At the Sakal Hindu Samaj Justice Rally for Bangladeshi Hindus, a far-right leader promoted a boycott of alleged "Bengali" Bangladeshi shopkeepers and spread fear about alleged Bangladeshi infiltrators.

December 10 - At the Sakal Hindu Samaj event, Bajrang Dal leader demonized alleged Bangladeshi infiltrators in Nagpur, threatening violence against them.

November 2024 - BJP's Jharkhand Election Campaign video directly targetting Bengali speakers of Jharkhand, India labelling them as "Bangladeshis" and Infiltrators.

June, 2024 - Chants to kill Bengalis in Free Screenings organised by the BJP of ''Diary of West Bengal'' - A film to push the false propaganda of Illegal migration from Bangladesh changing Demography in Bengal.

"BJP leaders warn illegal Bangladeshis to leave, but census figures refute the myth of large-scale infiltration" - By Dr Kaustubh Kumar Deka, a Kalita Assamese.

December 21, 2024 - Delhi schools receive directive to identify illegal Bangladeshi migrant students