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Ep 152: The Citizenship Battles

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Impetus for Citizenship in India

After the constitution sort of frames article 567 you then have the citizenship act of 1955. It basically says that an illegal migrant in India is a foreigner who has come to India without a proper visa or who has overstayed in India after the expiry of warWar permit he had to come to India he or sheYeah so that is one kind of very clear thing which takes away from all these things about whether you're a refugee persecution minority, your religion etc right as far as citizenship itself is concerned it created certain clear categories under which citizenship could be given. Assam constitutes the sort of you know different and exceptional zone to this we'll come to Assam in a bit.

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