The Citizenship Amendment Act ties Indian citizenship to Hindu identity

Evidence

That new law, dubbed the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), aimed to deny naturalized citizenship to Muslim immigrants. This was another step toward the Hindutva vision of binding Indian citizenship with Hindu identity. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 418

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to racial-religious citizenship tests in France, China, and the US cases the reader is synthesizing with Iftikhar. — connects to: India’s CAA stripped citizenship from millions of predominantly Muslim residents — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 188; Modern India’s republic was founded on equal plural belonging; Hindutva reframed Hinduism as a political identity mandating Muslim exclusion from India (+7 more)
• DEFINE: Names the CAA and its anti-Muslim citizenship purpose for the global survey.
• corroborated: 4 independent passages support this claim — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 418

Broader Connections

• The CAA redefined Indian citizenship to exclude Muslims in favor of Hindus #corroborates (0.95)
• India’s citizenship laws make Indian nationality synonymous with Hindu identity #corroborates (0.90)
• India’s Citizenship Amendment Act functioned as its own Muslim travel and citizenship ban #expands (0.80)
• India’s Citizenship Amendment Act of 2019 exceeded Trump’s Muslim Ban in restrictiveness #expands (0.50)
• Formal citizenship can mask disparities in substantive citizenship #expands (0.30) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 672