nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/0b4fcb56f4796663 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 240410s2024||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/0b4fcb56f4796663 doi eng 342 23 Ahmed, Farrah Author aut Subordination and Arbitrariness in Citizenship Law Ahmed, Farrah Verfassungsblog 2024-04-10 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier In 2019, the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party returned to power in India. The Bharatiya Janata Party oversaw the enactment of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019 (‘CAA’) which gave Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian (but not Muslim) migrants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan a fast-tracked pathway to Indian citizenship. This post argues that the CAA is unconstitutional, and uses it as an example to clarify two important under-theorised Indian constitutional principles: anti-subordination and arbitrariness. CC BY-SA 4.0 Citizenship India Indian Constitutionalism Staatsangehörigkeit (DE-588)1236319109 gnd India (DE-588)4056630-4 gnd Staatsangehörigkeit Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/subordination-and-arbitrariness-in-citizenship-law/ raw object