NEW DELHI — India’s northeastern border state of Assam is waiting with trepidation for the results of a citizenship census that could have major political, sectarian and diplomatic consequences just months before the country’s next general election. The National Register of Citizens, which will identify mostly Muslim immigrants from Bangladesh who are living in the…
The issue of citizenship in India has been rendered very complex by a thicket of laws, rules, and executive fiats. Article 6 of the Constitution says anybody from East or West Pakistan who enters India after July 19, 1948, must apply for citizenship. It is also governed by the Foreigners Act of 1946, the Passport…
We can barely keep count of ourselves, leave alone migrants The fates of the four million people whose names did not appear in the ‘complete draft’ of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam hinge on whether they can (again try to) prove their identities. I spoke with several Assamese friends and experts, and…