Paula Banerjee is Vice Chancellor, The Sanskrit College and University, Kolkata; and former Director, and member, Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata.

Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury is Fellow, Observer Research Foundation, Kolkata.

Atig Ghosh is Assistant Professor of History, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan; and Honorary Researcher, Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata.

Foreword by Ranabir Samaddar
Publisher’s Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations

The Grid: The Stateless and the Citizen
Paula Banerjee, Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury and Atig Ghosh

1. Words of Law, Worlds of Loss: The Stateless People of the Indo-Bangladeshi Enclaves
Atig Ghosh

2. The Remains of Partition? The Citizenship Question of Stateless Hindus in India
Sahana Basavapatna

3. Ordeal of Citizenship: The Up-Country Tamils in Sri Lanka and India
Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury

4. The Chinese of Calcutta: A Case of Statelessness
Suhit K. Sen

5. The Stateless Chakmas in Arunachal Pradesh
Samir Kumar Das and Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury

6. Elusive Home-Thoughts: The Unstable World of the Lhotsampas in South Asia
Atig Ghosh and Pravina Gurung

7. Ambiguous Identities: Statelessness of Gorkhas in Northeast India
Anup Shekhar Chakraborty and Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty

Bibliography
Notes on the Contributors
Index