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Citizenship Amendment Act

Deferred Belonging

In the border districts of West Bengal, citizenship is not an abstract legal status; it is a lived uncertainty.

Talk of the town: The Citizenship Amendment Act

The need to specify the date of entry to India in the application form, which they do not remember or have no proof in support of; filing an affidavit declaring citizenship at birth, etc., is worrying for them.

Tribal Vs Non-Tribal

As a matter of fact, CAA does not apply to the tribal areas of Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura as included in the Sixth Schedule, and the area covered under the inner line notified under the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation, 1873.