Chakrabarty: Citizenship Deprivation as an Act of Persecution: Case Study of t ‘infiltrators’ from the country, and the judiciary has been shown to be either complicit or otherwise hesitant to correct executive positions. Assam has emerged as a mass-statelessness project where the fate of over 1.9 million people hangs in a limbo – whether because of administrative practices and errors, or through the mandatory requirement of documents and proof which were never required under law; or in other cases, from a deliberate effort to exclude. The current act of othering on religious and ethnic lines thus stands to preclude entire communities from retaining their nationalities, although everyone barring Muslims would be entitled to claim persecution as a ground for re-entry into the citizens’ lists. Published by Osgoode Digital Commons, 2021 29