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Evaluate India’s stand on the recent Rohingya refugee issue.

  • UPSC 2018
  • 10 marks
  • India and South Asia

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The Rohingya, a Muslim community of Myanmar's Rakhine State, were rendered stateless by the 1982 Citizenship Law: in Hannah Arendt's terms, people stripped of the "right to have rights". The military's operations after the ARSA attacks of August 2017 drove over 700,000 into Bangladesh, which hosted 1,204,500 by August 2026 on UNHCR's count. India's stand…

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