In recent years India’s citizenship regime has shifted decidedly in a more exclusionary direction. Because these changes have taken place since the Narendra Modi-led Hindu nationalist government has been in power, the role played by other ideological forces and by politics at the subnational level has not received enough attention. Yet the national register of citizens (NRC) exercise--despite its name--has been carried out only in Assam in response to local political pressures. The workshop will provide a historical overview of the role of Assam-specific factors in affecting India’s crisis of citizenship and statelessness.
Readings
1. Sanjib Baruah, “Partition’s Long Shadow: Nation and Citizenship in Assam,”
Chapter 2 of Baruah, In the Name of the Nation: India and its Northeast (Stanford University Press, 2020) pp. 47-75
2. Sanjib Baruah, “Assam, Northeast India and the ‘unfinished business’of Partition,” Frontline (Chennai), December 2019.
https://frontline.thehindu.com/cover-story/article30276342.ece
3. Sanjib Baruah, “The Politics of Non-Citizenship in Assam.” Seminar (New Delhi), January 2022.
https://www.india-seminar.com/2022/749/749-SANJIB%20BARUAH.htm
UofT students please register to get pdfs of the readings to come prepared for the workshop.
Transportation
We will arrange transpotation for UofT students and faculty coming from St. George campus to UTM and vice versa after the workshop.
