Remembering Sally Engle Merry
Sally Engle Merry, an innovative and foundational contributor to so many areas in legal anthropology, died on September 8, 2020….
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India’s Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA)
This PoLAR Online series, India’s Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), is edited by Syantani Chatterjee and Natasha Raheja. The controversial Citizenship…
India’s Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA): Citizenship and Belonging in India
By Syantani Chatterjee and Natasha Raheja The controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) was signed into law by the Hindu nationalist…
Unwelcome Guests and Hostages: Minority Claims on the State
By Ghazal Asif and Natasha Raheja India’s controversial Hindu nationalist Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) expedites Indian citizenship for Pakistani Hindus…
The Darjeeling plains: Citizenship as Minority Disenfranchisement in a Border District
By Abhishek Bhattacharyya Although the Islamophobic CAA purportedly allows many non-Muslims excluded from the National Population Register and National Register…
The Usual Suspects
By Syantani Chatterjee We will ensure implementation of NRC in the entire country. We will remove every single infiltrator from…
Collective Willfulness: Refashioning Empowered Girlhood
By Karishma Desai The celebration of empowered girls is near ubiquitous across international development and humanitarian regimes. Marking girls…
Between Faith and Panic
By Sahana Ghosh In Cooch Behar in 2019, as queues became visible outside government offices, the news of some people…
CAA and NRC Stoke the Wrong Problems in Meghalaya
By Nafis Hasan In December 2019, at the peak of the anti-CAA protests, my high school WhatsApp group was abuzz…
Hauntings of a Deadname: Proof, Ephemera, and Queer/Trans Citizenship
By Brian A. Horton Before the Citizenship Amendment Act, the Transgender Act posed barriers to transgender Indians’ right to self-definition….
