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    696: India’s National Register of Citizens: What’s Next for the Excluded

    Amit Ranjan

    4 September 2019

    The fate of the 1.9 million people whose names are missing from the final list of the updated NRC hangs in the balance. They can now move to the Foreigners Tribunal and, if not satisfied, then to the High Court. However, the bigger question is- what will happen to those who will be finally declared as foreigners?