Saheb, I have a passport, why don’t I still feel sufficiently Indian?
Citizenship considered as actions, not just possession of documents. In his excellently-argued piece on citizenship, which appeared on this website, BV Rao posits that the contours of a birthright Indian, as drawn by the state, are pencilled with the graphite of metrics contained within a sheaf of documents: passports, voter IDs, Aadhaar cards. He contends that, despite being in possession…
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