India, Sept. 6 -- More than 110 individuals, including a college professor, students, and common residents, were detained in Assam's Sribhumi (formerly Karimganj) district during a protest against the renaming of the district, police said on Saturday.

The Assam government, in a cabinet decision in November last year, changed the name of Karimganj to Sribhumi, citing a 1919 visit by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore.

After the renaming, chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma wrote on X (formerly Twitter): "Over a 100 years ago, Kabiguru Rabindranath Tagore had described modern-day Karimganj District in Assam as 'Sribhumi'-the land of Maa Lakshmi. Today the Assam Cabinet has fulfilled this long-standing demand of our people."

However, many ...