Tiurki i irantsi v Tanskoi imperii [Turks and Iranians in the Tang Empire]

Abstract

principle of res judicata. The Sarbanda Sonowal judgment, according to Bhat, is ‘unrealisticeven cruel-evidentiary demands on people who are often poor, illiterate and without access to government documents’ (p.182). Hence, citizenship in India has turned merely into an enquiry of evidence rather than belongingness that is termed as ‘tyranny of documents’ in the book. The last part of this section recommends the state to apply certain measures with fair legal rules of evidence in order to make the judicial process inclusive and reliable. The later sections of the book move towards the pan-Indian level discussing the implications of CAA and NRC on vulnerable and marginalized citizens. It portrays the duality in citizenship regime in India where refugee status is accorded to certain selected communities by pushing the Muslims at abeyance. The book further urges India’s stand on the refugee protection formula, where already being a signatory to the Global Compact on Refugees, 2018, the country should adopt a humanitarian, if not majoritarian, perspective in according belongingness to its people. Finally, the concluding section looks in to the contestations around the CAA-NRC-NPR trinity where the government, as protesters put it, is attempting to disenfranchise a particular community based on religion. The power to disenfranchise a person permits executive to victimize genuine Indian citizens, thereby cutting their legal personality. These contestations, as argued in the book, need certain exercises to be adjudicated upon so as to understand the consequences of statelessness in India in general and Assam in particular. In sum, the book is a detailed work on the contested citizenship in India, particularly from the legislative, executive and judicial standpoint with comprehensive theoretical underpinnings. However, the book limits its eyes only on the Muslim minority question in the entire debate on citizenship by ignoring the nationality question of Assam. Besides, the book vehemently critics the NRC process conducted in Assam without placing immigration in the context. Moreover, citizenship debate in India can’t be justified only from the prism of religion but through multidimensional issues that have been shaping the social, cultural and political values. Yet, the book is oriented towards cosmopolitan outlook with a humanitarian perspective, which would be beneficial for those having keen interest to understand the citizenship debate in India.