It is a fascinating movement that is happening in India right now," said Dr Faisal Devji, the professor of Indian history at the University of Oxford. The anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act protests have brought to light a strange reversal in India's political approach to the refugee crisis that the world is witnessing, Devji added.

"Whether or not this [anti-CAA protests] is purely a movement of young people and whether it can bring on board other segments of society...it certainly is historic in some sense... This movement seems to be reversing what is happening elsewhere in the world while dealing with the same issue, i.e. the issue of refugees," said Devji while speaking to mid-day ahead of the 22nd Vasant J Sheth memorial lecture titled 'Gandhi at Sea' at the Visitor Centre Auditorium, Fort, on Wednesday.