THE ATROCITY IN ASSAM.

Suggests that the atrocity in Assam, committed against Moslem immigrants by the Hindus, reveal the contradictions of postcolonial world. Number of fatalities in what news reports called election violence; Ethnic composition of Assam; Opposition of the Hindu population to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's calls for state and federal elections, which they fear would result in an increase in Moslem representation; Conclusions drawn from the massacre concerning the real conditions of political life in the third world, and their porousness to Western innovations; Nature of nationalism where the idea of the nation competes with the idea of the tribe; Nature of democracy in India.