The Assam Conundrum | Books
NRC 2019 works with dates, not religion, which has excluded large numbers of Hindus. CAB undermines this intent.
On August 31, 2019, the final National Register of Citizens (NRC) was published. News coverage in India estimated that around 1.9 million citizens were made 'stateless'. The NRC is a culmination of decades of questions over citizenship around the Assam Movement. Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty's book, Assam: The Accord, The Discord, traces the emergence of the movement and the debates that began in 1979 spearheaded by
