About the Book: This Land Is Mine, I Am Not Of This Land CAA-NRC And The
Manufacture Of Statelessness
The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), passed by the Parliament of India in
December 2019, promises citizenship to migrants of the 'Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist,
Jain, Parsi or Christian community from Afghanistan, Bangladesh Pakistan. By
excluding Muslims from the list and not extending the promise to refugees from
any of Indias non-Muslim-majority neighbours, the CAA makes religion the basis
of citizenship for the first time in the history of Republic. Many fear that
this Act, coupled with a countrywide National Register of Citizens (NRC), will
eventually be used to disenfranchise