doi:10.2139/ssrn.3667298NRCCAACitizenshipWith the completion of the NRC process in Assam and bringing CAA, India has begun paradoxical of processes of denationalization and citizenization at the sameSocial Science Electronic Publishing
The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which violates the ideal of secularism enshrined in the Indian constitution, is the latest episode in a larger war that the country’s far-right, Hindu-nationalist ruling party, the BJP, led by their communal demagogue Narendra Modi, has been waging against...
Citizenship Amendment ActNational Register of CitizensIndian ConstitutionSecularismCAANRCThis paper examines the provisions of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) against the backdrop of the citizenship provisions of the Indian Constitution. It arguSocial Science Electronic Publishing...
TheCitizenship Amendment Act(CAA), bulldozed through both houses of Parliament in three days in December without consultation with opposition parties or civil society, provides preferential pathways to Indian citizenship for non-Muslim minorities from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan. It ...
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom had recommended placing India also on the CPC list, citing among other issues the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), but Secretary of State Mike Pompeo rejected the suggestion when he announced the designations Dec. 7. Brownback, however, said...
Over the last few days, a lot of people supporting the Citizenship Amendment Act have been telling me to find any text about religious discrimination against Muslims in it. Actually, they are still saying that [...]
Bilkis was joined by thousands of women, initially Muslim, but then of all religions, ages and classes to protest against the government’s National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). The NRC targeted people in Assam and asked them to prove citizenship by prov...
“illegal,” she declares, even when they don’t have the proper documents to prove citizenship. In less developed parts of India, not having the right documents is far from uncommon. That’s why, now that India has passed the Citizen Amendment Act (CAA) and is implementing the National ...
the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), the National Registry for Citizens (NRC), etc., This is not the first time such a clarion call for Ghazwa-e-Hind (the prophesied final battle against India) has been made. The Islamic State and Al Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) had made similar...
(Glory to God Ram), being thrown off of moving trains, hate crime lynchings, complete Muslim areas under attack and destroyed, mosque destruction at the hands of Hindutva mobs, and efforts to denationalise Muslims through the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which deserves to be detailed in...