'Illegal' Bangladeshis in Akhand Bharat : inscriptions of race and religion on citizenship

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Abstract

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.
Original languageEnglish
Number of pages11
JournalEconomic and Political Weekly
Volume53
Issue number7
Publication statusPublished - 2018

Keywords

  • Bangladeshis
  • India
  • religion
  • ethnicity
  • illegal aliens

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