TY - BOOK AU - Saradindu Mukherji TI - CITIZENSHIP AMENDMENT ACT, 2019 : Some Reflections SN - 9788188643806 U1 - 342.54083 PY - 2021/// CY - New Delhi PB - Akshaya Prakashan KW - Law  KW - Constitutional and administrative law KW -  Asia  KW - Indian Subcontinent N1 - India’s leaders – both political and intellectual have usually failed to anticipate the shape of things to come, and a society which refuses to learn from the past can not escape disaster. The victims of religio-ethnic cleansing from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan have been seeking shelter in India for decades. Originally, they belong to India. They are victims of history and for no fault of theirs. The state policies of these three countries from where the persecuted people flee to India have been brought under the scanner as never before. India’s troubled past over the millennium and religious demography provide the backdrop. Unfortunately, independent India’s ruling class ensured that its polity, educational system and the conduct of foreign affairs usually kept the world largely apathetic and insensitive to this tragedy for purely political considerations. Based on irrefutable evidence, hereis an analysis of all those historical forces, explaining the imperative necessity of the CAA 2019, which offers a solution as never before to our refugee problem ER -