India, March 31 -- Assam has the largest share of Muslims in its population among all Indian states. It is also a state which sees shrill communal rhetoric in its polity. The current chief minister of the state has often been in the news for making incendiary remarks about the state's Bengali-speaking Muslims. A lot of the state's public discourse in this regard hinges on the question of migration from Bangladesh. This is an issue that goes back a long time, even before the country became independent. However, what is often ignored in this discourse is the intersection of class and communalism in the state. How are Assam's Muslims placed in the state's labour market vis-a-vis Hindus? How is this different from other Indian states with a l...