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*Under Indian law, multiple groups are generally accepted as legal refugees. These include [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Tamils Sri Lankan Tamils,] Indians who were affected by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_Asians_from_Uganda 1972 expulsion of Ugandans of Indian origin,] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_religions Indic (Indian)-origin] religious minorities. As the birthplace of many religions, most prominently '''Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and Jainism''', India accepts followers of Indic-origin religions who are persecuted in their home states as refugees, most notably victims of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_India Partition of India] and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide 1971 Bangladesh genocide.]<ref>"Refugees in India", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugees_in_India, accessed 21 June 2021.</ref> | *Under Indian law, multiple groups are generally accepted as legal refugees. These include [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Tamils Sri Lankan Tamils,] Indians who were affected by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_Asians_from_Uganda 1972 expulsion of Ugandans of Indian origin,] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_religions Indic (Indian)-origin] religious minorities. As the birthplace of many religions, most prominently '''Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and Jainism''', India accepts followers of Indic-origin religions who are persecuted in their home states as refugees, most notably victims of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_India Partition of India] and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide 1971 Bangladesh genocide.] | ||
*Currently, there are around 8,000 to 11,684 '''Afghan refugees''' in India, most of whom are '''Hindus and Sikhs.''' | |||
*Many people from East Bengal (area covering current-day '''Bangladesh'''), mainly '''Hindus''', migrated to West Bengal during the partition of India in 1947. | |||
*'''Chakmas''' are a '''Bangladeshi Buddhist community'''. Chakma immigrants from Bangladesh have settled in the '''southern part of Mizoram''' because they were displaced by the construction of the Kaptai Dam on the Karnaphuli River in 1962. | |||
*Following the '''partition of India''', massive population exchanges occurred between the two newly formed nations, spanning several months. Based on the 1951 census, immediately after the partition 7.226 million '''Muslims''' migrated from '''India to Pakistan''', while 7.249 million '''Hindus''' and Sikhs moved from '''Pakistan to India'''. | |||
*The 14th Dalai Lama, a leader of the Tibetan migration movement, '''left Tibet for India''' after the 1959 Tibetan uprising. He was followed by about 80,000 '''Tibetan refugees.''' | |||
*In early August 1972, the president of Uganda, Idi Amin, ordered nearly 80,000 '''Indians in Uganda, mostly Gujaratis'''', to leave the country within 90 days. The expelled included 23,000 Indians who were Ugandan citizens. Although '''Ugandan citizens of Indian origin''' were later exempted from the expulsion, many chose to leave voluntarily. At the time, anti-Indian sentiment in Uganda was prominent. 4,500 refugees from Uganda ended up in India. | |||
*More than 100,000 '''Sri Lankan Tamils''' live in India, most of whom migrated during the rise of militancy in Sri Lanka and the Sri Lankan Civil War (1983-2009. Most Sri Lankans are settled in the '''southern states of Tamil Nadu (in the cities of Chennai, Madurai, Tiruchirappalli, and Coimbatore), Karnataka (in Bengaluru), and Kerala.'''<ref>"Refugees in India", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugees_in_India, accessed 21 June 2021.</ref> | |||
===Emigration From India=== | ===Emigration From India=== | ||