The journey from “migration certificate” to “citizenship card”: Livelihood, demography and changing identities in post-1947 Assam
Postcolonial nation building saw the assertion of dominance by majority community and persecution of minorities. One method of building nation-states as an exclusive domain of the majority was to innovate devices to convert citizens into “other” and render them stateless and right less. The updating...
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| Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires du Midi
2020-12-01
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| Series: | Diasporas: Circulations, Migrations, Histoire |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/diasporas/5609 |