No land's people: the untold story of Assam's NRC crisis

Table of contents

Part I: Finding the 'foreigners'
1 A number game
2 Vaghaiwalls's NRC
3 'Write down you are Bangladeshi'
4 The search for a cut-off year
5 Everyone wants a correct NRC

Part II: Chronicles of statelessness
6 My grandmother is a doubtful voter
7 Kangaroo courts
8 Declared foreigner in absentia
9 A soldier in a detention camp
10 Ten long year
11 'The bideshi case'

Part III: Preparing the NRC
12 The beginnings
13 Who is the original inhabitant?
14 Shifting goalposts
15 In and out
16 Chaos and deaths
17 The 'musch-misunderstood coordinator'
18 The legal snarl

Part IV: Political gamesmanship
19 Between policy and ground reality
20 Detention and deportation
21 Outrage
22 'Aap chronology samajh lijiye'

The preparation of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam was an unprecedented exercise that sought to establish Indian citizenship of the state’s 33 million residents. The process intersected with the already existing parallel mechanisms of citizenship determination in the state. The final list, published on 31 August 2019, left out around 1.9 million applicants who risk being rendered stateless after their appeals are heard by the state’s Foreigners’ Tribunals.
The NRC’s narrative is expansive and complex — a blend of history, politics, law, human rights, and administrative red tape. No Land’s People documents the unfolding humanitarian crisis in Assam’s citizenship tangle, juxtaposes it with the complications of the NRC process while exploring technical, social and legal aspects of the exercise.

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