Tag: India

Resources on the National Register of Citizens in Assam, India

September 6, 2021

Citizenship Amendment Bill: India’s new ‘anti-Muslim’ law explained

Opponents of the bill say it is exclusionary and violates the secular principles enshrined in the constitution. They say faith cannot be made a condition of citizenship.

The constitution prohibits religious discrimination against its citizens, and guarantees all persons equality before the law and equal protection of the law.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-50670393

The Foreigner: Soldier, engineer, Assam Border Police official: Mohammed Sanaullah was the model Indian citizen. Then his employers decided he wasn’t.

Waves of migration from East Bengal in the twentieth century have, indeed, caused a significant demographic shift. At the beginning of the century, Assam’s Muslim population was 12.4 percent. At the start of the twenty-first century, it was 30.92 per cent. This rate of growth is compared with the rest of India to make a case for unchecked illegal migration from Bangladesh. That is why being a Bengali-speaking Muslim in Assam is a presumption against being an ‘original inhabitant.’

https://fiftytwo.in/story/the-foreigner/

Why has India’s Assam erupted over an ‘anti-Muslim’ law?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-50757093

How the National Citizenship Registration in Assam is shaping a new national identity in India

https://theconversation.com/how-the-national-citizenship-registration-in-assam-is-shaping-a-new-national-identity-in-india-121152

Citizenship Amendment Bill Negatively Impacts Indigenous Peoples of Northeast India

https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/citizenship-amendment-bill-negatively-impacts-indigenous-peoples-northeast-india

INDIA’S CITIZENSHIP LAW, IN TANDEM WITH NATIONAL REGISTRY, COULD MAKE BJP’S DISCRIMINATORY TARGETING OF MUSLIMS EASIER

https://theintercept.com/2020/01/30/india-citizenship-act-caa-nrc-assam/

China and India Brawl at 14,000 Feet Along the Border

August 11, 2021

As China projects its power across Asia, and along the disputed India-China border in the Himalayas, India is feeling surrounded. Both sides insist they don’t want a war, but thousands of troops have been sent.

Analysts said that China did not intend to start a war but that it wanted to frustrate India’s road-building efforts. The race to make these high mountain roads is becoming increasingly fraught. The 2017 standoff between India and China began when Indian troops physically blocked a Chinese road crew in a disputed region claimed by Bhutan, a close ally of India’s.

How to end the perilous Indo-Chinese border spat ($)

August 11, 2021

To avoid escalation, both sides should agree on the “Line of Actual Control”

Yet whatever the efficacy of generals meeting in windblown tents, it is a reckless way to fix problems between two rising nuclear powers that are home to a third of humanity. India has previously suggested that, as a second-best to a formal agreement over where the border lies, the two sides should at least present maps showing their view of where the line of control runs in practice. China, perhaps thinking itself the more astute Go player, has always refused to do so. This allows it to claim that any Indian move is a violation of its own understanding.

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2020/06/18/how-to-end-the-perilous-indo-chinese-border-spat

The Attack Of The Civilization-State

August 11, 2021

A world society seemed to be advancing. But then the civilization-state struck back.

As a civilization-state, China is organized around culture rather than politics. Linked to a civilization, the state has the paramount task of protecting a specific cultural tradition. Its reach encompasses all the regions where that culture is dominant.

The importance of this concept became more obvious to me in India during a conversation with Ram Madhav, the general secretary of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. After a conference in Delhi, he explained: “From now on, Asia will rule the world, and that changes everything because in Asia, we have civilizations rather than nations.”

The Attack Of The Civilization-State

The Attack Of The Civilization-State

February 10, 2021

 

As a civilization-state, China is organized around culture rather than politics. Linked to a civilization, the state has the paramount task of protecting a specific cultural tradition. Its reach encompasses all the regions where that culture is dominant.

The importance of this concept became more obvious to me in India during a conversation with Ram Madhav, the general secretary of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. After a conference in Delhi, he explained: “From now on, Asia will rule the world, and that changes everything because in Asia, we have civilizations rather than nations.”

The Attack Of The Civilization-State