Citizenship – understood as formal legal status, as a conduit for rights, a means of shaping one’s social and cultural identities and as a moral claim about belonging – is a matter of intense debate in India and across the world today. As these debates rage on in India, there are stories of people impacted by legislative and administrative changes in Assam, Bihar, and across the country who are marked and described in terms of governance categories – as “doubtful voters” or “illegal immigrants” – that arrive in our inboxes and pop up as notifications on our screens – accounts of people struggling to get identity documents, receive food rations or register in schools, contending with impossible choices between finding and keeping jobs or remaining with kin, or facing criminal charges and de

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