Citizenship bill angers India’s Muslims
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India’s controversial new citizenship law has deepened worries that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is pursuing policies that effectively turn India’s Muslims into second-class citizens
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Indian-administered Kashmir
CHINA
NEPAL 
Assam 
BHUTAN
Delhi 
Ayodhya
INDIA
BANGLADESH
SRI LANKA
MYANMAR
AFGHANISTAN 
PAKISTAN

400km 250 miles
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May 23: Narendra Modi secures second term after his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wins landslide victory in general election
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Aug 5: Government revokes autonomous status of Indian-administered Kashmir – India’s only Muslim-majority state
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Aug 31: National Register of Citizens (NRC) published in state of Assam sees 1.9 million people – many from non-Hindu minorities – effectively made stateless
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Nov 9: Supreme Court awards disputed land in Ayodhya to Hindus to build temple on site where Hindu mob destroyed mosque in 1992
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Nov 20: Home Minister Amit Shah announces plans to carry out NRC-like process at national level to weed out “infiltrators” from neighbouring countries
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Dec 11: Parliament passes bill offering citizenship to religious minorities – except Muslims – from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. Critics say setting religious criteria for citizenship violates India’s secular constitution 
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RELIGION IN INDIA
Hindu 79.80% (966 million)
Muslim 14.23% (172m)
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Christian  2.30% (27.8m)
Sikh  1.72% (20.8m)
Buddhist 0.70% (8.4m)
Jain 0.37% (4.5m)
Others 0.88% (10.7m)
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Sources: India census 2011, AP, Reuters, BBC, AFP  © GRAPHIC NEWS Picture: Getty Images