Bangladesh, Sept. 9 -- After constitutional changes in Kashmir, India has now generated more debate and controversy in international relations with its dealing with of Assam. On August 31, India published the final version of a citizines' list which effectively strips 1,906,657 people in that State of their citizenship. This number includes about 1.1 million persons of Hindu faith and about 500 thousand of Muslim faith. A draft version of a similar list published last year had excluded about four million people.
The controversial National Register of Citizens (NRC), includes a list of people, who according to relevant Indian administrative authorities, have been able to prove that they were inhabitants of that State by March 24, 1971, a da...