Refusal, Romanticism and Ground Realities in Northeast India

Suraj Gogoi interrogates the tension between ‘theory’ and ‘ground realities’ in writing on the completed yet contested NRC process in India’s North-Eastern state of Assam. Gogoi writes, “the intent of the article is two-fold. First, the article seeks to uncover the ecology of academic work on the background of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) process in contemporary Assam, which aims to identify 'illegal' citizens in the Northeast Indian state…Secondly… the various grounds of such critique —underground, overground, background, foreground, groundlessness—will also be explored.”

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