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Post by confuzzled dude Sun Mar 26, 2017 12:56 pm

The tiny piece of paper is the original National Register of Citizens (NRC), 1951, document that was prepared on the basis of independent India’s first census. It has Hanif’s father Altaf Ali’s name written on it in blue ink. The document states that Ali’s ancestors migrated to Assam from erstwhile East Bengal before the Partition. The NRC is being updated again now, so Firoza and Hanif must guard this paper with dear life to establish that they are indeed Indian citizens
The anxiety to possess proof of identity has never been greater for this community. The updated NRC will include the descendants of all those who were included in the 1951 register. But a vast majority of these immigrants have been described as ‘doubtful citizens’, and before the 2016 elections in Assam, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had announced clearly that its key objective was to evict “doubtful citizens” from all government land and ensure the “complete sealing of the Indo-Bangladesh border.”

So, the yellowing piece of paper could not stop Ali’s family from being evicted last September from Deosursang village in Nagaon district. His family now lives in lean-tos in Chikunipathar, where a dozen families were huddled together in the winter cold when we visited early this year.
http://www.thehindu.com/society/brittle-bits-of-paper/article17639521.ece?homepage=true

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