From the website: "India’s controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) was signed into law on Friday, December 12th, 2019. It is the most recent amendment to the 1955 Citizenship Act and provides a fast-track to Indian citizenship for migrants belonging to minority communities from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan if they entered the territory of India before 31 December 2014. It reduces the required period of residence before naturalization from eleven years to five years. It also exempts them from any pending proceedings for “illegal immigration.” Most perniciously, the Act redefines access to Indian citizenship on ethno-religious grounds, making it easier for Hindus, Parsis, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, and Christians to naturalize, while leaving out Muslims from these countries. ... Understanding the long history of imperial rule, mobility, and itinerancy between India and her neighbors is necessary for making sense of why the Act has sparked such widespread protest and criticism. In the past, there were times when neighboring countries were not divided by international-legal borders and competing forms of citizenship, and periods when those borders were violently constructed. Below is a microsyllabus of key texts, commentary by their authors in other forms, oral history collections, as well as selected fictional works to help teach about the historical and regional forces that underpin the CAA and current protests. These texts provide elements of the historical context of migration and the regimes of citizenship-making in South Asia. We focus in particular on the liminal places and peoples constituted by newly drawn international borders, both across land and sea."