Geopolitics of the NRC-CAA in Assam: Impact on Bangladesh–India Relations

Sufian, Abu

doi:10.1080/14631369.2020.1820854

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“…Under that scheme, in the period between 1961 and 1969 as many as 192,079 people were forcefully evicted from their homes and deported (Hussain 1993). Multiple narratives of physical and structural violence and deportation against Muslims cast as 'illegal immigrants' emerged (Tiwari and Singh 2021;Sufian 2020). A later period of great agitation started by a group of students against alleged foreigners, between 1979 and 1985, has been described as one of most important historical events in the contestation of citizenship and belonging in Assam The students' agitation initially began against the 'bohiragoto' which means the outsider, although the focus shifted to naming them 'foreigners' (Ahmed 2014).…”

Section: A Brief History Of Citizenship Contestation In Assammentioning

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Beyond Resistance, Beyond Assimilation: Reimagining Citizenship through Poetry

Azad

Nadkarni

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2022

Journal of Human Rights Practice

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The members of the Miya community in Assam, India have been facing an exacerbated threat of statelessness. Among the emancipatory grassroots organizations that have emerged to defend the rights of the Miya community, is an aesthetic resistance movement, now recognized as the ‘Miya Poetry’ movement. The bulk of the movement’s work since its emergence in 2016 has been to call attention to the discriminations and human rights violations faced by the Miya people in citizenship contestation processes. Miya poetry has, on the one hand, received wide acceptance as a poetry of protest and resistance in artistic, academic, and liberal media circles, while on the other, its contributors have been frequently criminalized or questioned by the state for their political views. In this article, we argue that Miya poetry should be looked at beyond the frames of resistance and protest in order to understand its social work as a human-rights movement. These poems have the affective capacity to build resilience, to facilitate complex understandings of difference, and to reimagine equality, democratic values, and freedom from forced assimilation as integral to the idea of citizenship. We used innovative methods to form our data corpus, combining life history interviews with analyses of selected poems. We deployed thematic analysis to report our results. The findings will be useful not only for the poets and artists of different genres who seek to defend human rights, but more broadly for global human-rights practices that wish to actuate a deeper reflective engagement with art-based activisms.

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Section: A Brief History Of Citizenship Contestation In Assammentioning

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Beyond Resistance, Beyond Assimilation: Reimagining Citizenship through Poetry

Azad

Nadkarni

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2022

Journal of Human Rights Practice

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“…For this reason, in "C.A.A." tactfully inserted Hindu nationalism targeting only Muslims as "Illegal Bangladeshi migrants" and deprived them the chance of gaining Indian citizenship (Sufian, 2020).…”

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“…introduced "Line system" between 1916-1920 demarking migrant settlements of Barak valley. However this system increased rift between two contested communities (Sufian, 2020).…”

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N.R.C. C.A.A. and the Changing Concept of Identity in Indian Perspective

Chakraborty¹

2022

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Migrations of tribe, people, race from one place to another for socio-economic-political reasons are as old as evolution of human race. According to archeologists, the first hominid species originated from Africa had been migrated to all over the globe. However in modern era, migrants from one country to another withoutproper documents and legal process are characterized as "Illegal immigrants." In 1947 A.D. the Indian Sub-continent had been broken in-to two separate Nation State of India and Pakistan as part of decolonization process from almost two century old British colonial regime. Very huge quantities of people had to migrate from both these two lands. The Indian Constitution had made provisions to provide Indian citizenship to the migrants through legal process. To determine who genuine Indian citizens were, the N.R.C. was first prepared in 1951. It was decided that migrants from Pakistan will be given Indian citizenship till the first January, 1966. However during the 1970s, Liberation war had been fought between Pakistan army and Bengali speaking resident of East Pakistan supported by Indian Govt. In this period, large amount of migrants from East Pakistan had been entered in different Indian provinces for economic-political stability. According to the book "Bangladesh Ke swatantra Sangram Mein Bharat Ka Yugdaan" authored by salaam Azad, the migrant no was 9899 305. After establishment of Bangladesh in 1971, Mujib Treaty was signed between India and the new Country. Indian Govt agreed to provide citizenship to all Bangladeshi migrant residing in Assam till 24.3.1971. The Assam accord signed by the Indian Govt. and Assam's ethnic associations cemented the agreement. However during the last three decades illegal migration from Bangladesh to Assam had been increased rapidly. Out of 33 districts of Assam, 9 have been over crowded with these Bangladeshi illegal immigrants. This changed demography of these districts and native ethnic -religious groups became minorities in their forefathers' land.In 2012 a clash occurred between Bodo and Bangladeshi Muslims in the Bodoland territories in which more than 70 people had died. In this background, Assam Samhita Maha Sangh applied to Supreme Court for determining illegal migrants. In response,

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“… 13. Sufian (2020: 3); see also Roy and Singh’s (2009) work to understand the complexities of citizenship in Assam. …”

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Reifying subjectivities: A critical discourse analysis of The Assam Tribune in Northeast India

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2022

Discourse & Communication

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This article examines how colonial mentalities of subjectifying the people are reinstated in postcolonial Northeast India through the media. Using the Bodos as a context of the argument, the paper studies The Assam Tribune news headlines during the 2021 Assam Legislative Assembly election. By studying both micro- and macrostructures of news headlines, using critical discourse analysis (CDA), the article argues that the media continue to reify the subjective consciousness of the population as a discourse that dominates the conflicting ground of social, cultural, and political coexistence across the multi-ethnic populations. While deflecting the government’s divisive policies, the media portrays the government as the source of ‘solution’. Although the technique of governance differs from colonial to postcolonial regime, the objective to constantly subjectify the multi-ethnic population within their realm of subjective consciousness for the purpose of governance remains the same.

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Geopolitics of the NRC-CAA in Assam: Impact on Bangladesh–India Relations

Cited by 11 publications

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Beyond Resistance, Beyond Assimilation: Reimagining Citizenship through Poetry

Beyond Resistance, Beyond Assimilation: Reimagining Citizenship through Poetry

N.R.C. C.A.A. and the Changing Concept of Identity in Indian Perspective

Reifying subjectivities: A critical discourse analysis of The Assam Tribune in Northeast India

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