India, March 15 -- When the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government tabled the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in the Lok Sabha in December 2019, massive protests erupted across several states in India. Among them was Assam, where some of the most intense demonstrations took place. The police responded with heavy force, leading to the deaths of protesters in Guwahati.

With the Narendra Modi government notifying the rules of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), after more than four years, large parts of Assam have once again taken to the streets in protest. But, Assam's relationship with the CAA is a complicated one because not everyone in the state opposes the act, and those who do, do not oppose it for the same reasons the rest of India do...