But in the aftermath of this disaster politics between the different Indian factions were set aside.
By Christine Weston The New Yorker, August 16, 1947 P. 65 Allah Bux, a Muslim, living in Calcutta, tells of the underlying conflict everywhere in the city between the Indians of different factions.
He denied his group was behind the hijacking of the Indian airliner -- a "breakaway faction" was to blame, he said -- and he denied that his group has ever killed civilians in its war in Kashmir.
A separatist faction from the Indian side of Kashmir said it would accept an invitation by President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan to visit the Pakistani side next month.
Non-Sinhalese factions such as the Kalingas and Pandyas of India gained power in Sri Lanka as a result of dynastic marriages with south Indian royalty; conflict between these factions was common.
Citing communications intercepts and other intelligence, American, Afghan and Indian officials said the Haqqani network, a Taliban faction closely associated with Pakistan's spy service, the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, was responsible for both previous attacks.
But only days later, he received word that the Dhubri faction of Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind (Organization of Indian Islamic Scholars), a conservative organization of Indian Muslim clerics, had distributed fliers in a local mosque in Hatsingimarie forbidding imams to attend the last rites of the sterilized men.
Since merging their two main factions in 2004 to form the Communist Party of Indian (Maoist) under Muppala Lakshmana Rao, known as "Ganapathi they have minimised the internal conflict that always plagued them.
The dominant faction negotiated a cease-fire with the Indian government in 1997.
The pro-chief faction contends that Illiniwek, who is named for the Illini Indians who once roamed Illinois, honors American Indians and the state's heritage.
