‘We’re new miyas’: Will BJP naming some Assamese Muslims ‘Indigenous’ work?

Assam, India – Akram Ali stood by the ruins of his four-room house under the scorching April heat, sifting through the debris where his life once stood.

“This was my home built more than 45 years ago,” Ali, 50, said, his eyes tearing up. “Now it’s all rubble.”

On the morning of March 14, bulldozers descended on Islampur, a predominantly Muslim neighbourhood in Bongora on t...