1. National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam: within, without and beyond the law.
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Gogoi, Suraj and Sen, Rohini
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CITIZENS , *CITIZENSHIP , *NATIONALISM , *ACCOUNTING laws , *MYTHOLOGY - Abstract
This paper analyses the historical antecedents, character and implications of Assam’s National Register of Citizens as a socio-legal instrument. It seeks to understand how dominant nationalisms and the state produce volatile paper citizenship regimes, and use law – as a reified transcendental performance of social will – to construct the ‘minority citizen’ through categories of ‘belonging’ and ‘citizenship’. The paper does this by analysing three typologies of the law-society interaction. First, it examines what/who is a citizen from
within law . Second, it critiques the mythology of law by giving an account of belonging and suffering of minority citizenswithout law . Third, it foregrounds peripheral subjectivities by offering an account of minority citizenshipbeyond law . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2024
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