The Emergence of Citizenship in India

Srinyan Sindarayan: One of the things that is interesting about this whole majoritarian project in India and which distinguishes it from other majoritarian projects is that the people we are projecting as the other are not recent immigrants. Muslims have been a part of India for centuries right? And even Savarkar recognized because if one sees his rhetoric till about 1910 it's actually very inclusive when he sees Hindus and Muslims fighting together, Srinyan says. He also argues that what Savarkar seems to be intimidating is that citizenship is something that comes from dissent so if you are a Hindu you are a citizen whereas the other notion of citizenship is citizenship by birth If you are born in India