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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Remaking the idea of an Indian citizen -Yamini Aiyar

Remaking the idea of an Indian citizen -Yamini Aiyar

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published Published on Sep 5, 2019   modified Modified on Sep 5, 2019
-Hindustan Times

The Constitution promises religion-neutral citizenship. NRC and its fallout could upend that

The controversy unfolding in Assam over the National Register of Citizens (NRC), published on August 31, has brought to the fore important fault lines in the construction of citizenship in contemporary India.

In particular, it places the spotlight on the role of key institutional actors – the bureaucracy and judiciary – in adjudicating citizenship. Crucially, the implementation of the NRC is illustrative of the ways in which the politics of religion has increasingly begun to intersect with institutional processes to shape understandings of who is a “legal” citizen. Against the backdrop of growing calls for a nationwide NRC, and the pending amendments to the citizenship law, Assam’s present quagmire could extend to many parts of the country. Its consequences on the making and remaking of citizenship in India are significant, and thus need careful interrogation.

Writing in these pages, when the draft NRC was published last August, I pointed to the central role played by bureaucratic procedures and documents in determining citizenship through the NRC. To be included in the NRC, the onus lay on Assamese residents to furnish official documents in their possession as proof of citizenship on or before 1971, leaving it to the powers of the State to certify their authenticity. But a combination of bureaucratic failure and vulnerability to corruption, typical of how bureaucracy operates in India, has made this an arbitrary and disempowering process.

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Hindustan Times, 3 September, 2019, https://www.hindustantimes.com/columns/remaking-citizenship-and-the-constitution/story-AexWLBGKRP8RGwkfJjWBWM.html?fbclid=IwAR2fSq3pwujOrcl09YWcKXRWg6o2NI37_n-1dzVD


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