The text is edited for style and clarity. Suchitra Vijayan: Suraj, before we start, could you lay out to our listeners what the NRC is and what this process entails? Suraj Gogoi: Sure, so the NRC was a document that was prepared in the state of Assam in 1951. It was meant to be a rough notebook that listed out names of people in Assam at that point in time, which certain enumerators carried out, but it was not meant to be used in any form. But later on, it became the basis of NRC Assam as we see in its current form. This process intended to identify “illegal immigrants” or illegal citizens or people within Assam. These so-called illegal people or citizens were primarily thought to be migrants from erstwhile East Bengal, today’s present-day Bangladesh. Now, NRC Assam took a long time to register—close to 60 million documents to…

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