Book Review: 'On Citizenship' By Romila Thapar, N Ram, Gautam Bhatia and Gautam Patel
Live LawThe passing of the Citizenship Act, 2019 sparked widespread protests across the country. On Citizenship is the latest book in a series published by Aleph Book Company in which eminent writers and thinkers comment on some of the most pressing issues facing India today. The book examines the key aspects of what constitutes citizenship in India and explores the historical context necessary to understand how the issue of citizenship has evolved in the world's largest democracy. The book contains 4 chapters - each authored by historian Romila Thapar, editor and political commentator N. Ram, legal scholar and writer Gautam Bhatia, and jurist Gautam Patel respectively. In 'Citizenship and the Constitution', legal scholar and writer Gautam Bhatia dives into the Constituent Assembly Debates to explore the original intent of the framers, and to show how the Assembly envisioned Citizenship – like the fundamental rights, the directive principles, the federal structure, and the rest of the Constitution—were part of a coherent web of principle, not single strands floating in the air.
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