This article argues that deprivation of citizenship is an ongoing force of colonial violence. By exploring the case of citizenship stripping in India's northeastern state of Assam, the article proposes that the removal of citizenship rights is not merely an aberration of the “normal” rules of citizenship but bound up with ongoing forms of colonial dispossession informed by racial hierarchies, the regulation of belonging and mobility. Interdisciplinary scholarship on deprivation of citizenship remains largely Euro/Western-centric and fails to consider how deprivation works as part of broader patterns of colonial-modern dispossession. By drawing on Gurminder K. Bhambra's (2015) work on the colonial constitution of citizenship and Aurora Vergara-Figueroa's (2018) work on deracination, we treat deprivation of citizenship as a legacy of the colonial and racialized structure of citizenship itself. By using Assam as a case study, the article examines how practices of deprivations are tied to the histories of dispossession, extraction, and control, which underpinned the historical emergence of citizenship in (post)colonial India and beyond.

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剥夺公民身份作为殖民暴力：阿萨姆邦的种族灭绝和剥夺

本文认为，剥夺公民身份是殖民暴力的持续力量。通过探讨印度东北部阿萨姆邦公民身份被剥夺的案例，文章提出，公民权利的取消不仅仅是对“正常”公民身份规则的反常，而且与种族等级制度所告知的正在进行的殖民剥夺形式密切相关，归属感和流动性的调节。关于剥夺公民身份的跨学科学术研究仍然主要以欧洲/西方为中心，并没有考虑剥夺如何作为更广泛的殖民现代剥夺模式的一部分发挥作用。通过借鉴 Gurminder K. Bhambra（2015 年）关于殖民地公民宪法的工作和 Aurora Vergara-Figueroa（2018 年）关于种族灭绝的工作，我们将剥夺公民身份视为公民身份本身的殖民和种族化结构的遗产。通过使用阿萨姆邦作为案例研究，本文研究了剥夺实践如何与剥夺、提取和控制的历史联系在一起，这支撑了（后）殖民印度及其他地区公民身份的历史出现。