Ideas of Indian citizenship

The author has literally mapped the narrative of citizenship in the country which has evolved through several amendments in the Citizenship Act of 1955

Citizenship Regimes, Law and Belonging: The CAA and NRC

Author: Anupama Roy

Publisher: OUP

Pages: 270

Price: Rs 1,495

In recent years the government’s steps to redefine citizenship has generated extensive debate and heightened divergences in the socio-political discourse. Opposition to this legislative manoeuvre stepped outside seminar halls and campuses of educational institutions and made common cause with ordinary people who poured out on the streets after assessing, on their own, that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, (CAA) 2019 was discriminatory and against the tenets of India’s Constitution.

Faced with opposition that gained a life of its own, the government responded by launching unbridled persecution