TY - JOUR
T1 - 'Illegal' Bangladeshis in Akhand Bharat : inscriptions of race and religion on citizenship
AU - Mehta, Rimple
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - According to her, the unprecedented rise of the BJP in the 1990s provided a powerful incentive to the Congress-led government to expel undocumented Bangladeshis from Delhi. According to him, removal of Bangladeshi infiltrators would imply honouring the Supreme Court of India, which directed the central government in December 2014 to hold talks with Bangladesh to initiate steps for deporting identified illegal immigrants. According to her, the RSS developed the concept by positing the "original" Hindus as Aryans-depicted as a distinctive people indigenous to India-and caste Hindus as their descendants. [...]economic, ethnic, cultural, and historical factors, when coupled with the Hindutva ideology of race, help one to locate the position of the illegal Muslim Bangladeshis as the "other" in Akhand Bharat.
AB - According to her, the unprecedented rise of the BJP in the 1990s provided a powerful incentive to the Congress-led government to expel undocumented Bangladeshis from Delhi. According to him, removal of Bangladeshi infiltrators would imply honouring the Supreme Court of India, which directed the central government in December 2014 to hold talks with Bangladesh to initiate steps for deporting identified illegal immigrants. According to her, the RSS developed the concept by positing the "original" Hindus as Aryans-depicted as a distinctive people indigenous to India-and caste Hindus as their descendants. [...]economic, ethnic, cultural, and historical factors, when coupled with the Hindutva ideology of race, help one to locate the position of the illegal Muslim Bangladeshis as the "other" in Akhand Bharat.
KW - Bangladeshis
KW - India
KW - religion
KW - ethnicity
KW - illegal aliens
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:53944
UR - https://search.proquest.com/docview/2138031636?accountid=36155
M3 - Article
SN - 0012-9976
VL - 53
JO - Economic and Political Weekly
JF - Economic and Political Weekly
IS - 7
ER -