Soham Bhattacharya (soham.bhattacharya@krea.edu.in) is a postdoctoral scholar at the Moturi Satyanarayana Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences; KREA University.
Hindutva politics and the entrenched ethnic tensions in Assam have intensified the “othering” of Bengali Muslims in the state. But these "others" live in extreme poverty compared to other…