Are We the Citizens of India? confronts one of the most urgent constitutional questions of our time: who gets to belong, and who decides? Drawing on the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019, the National Register of Citizens, and the National Population Register, Prof. Madabhushi Sridhar Acharyulu, a former Central Information Commissioner and constitutional scholar, examines how citizenship, a right preceding even the Fundamental Rights, is being reshaped by law and political will. The book moves from the Constituent Assembly debates of Ambedkar, Patel, and Rajendra Prasad to the lived trauma of Assam’s NRC exercise and detention centres, weaving judicial interpretation, human rights obligations, and India’s philosophical traditions of Dharma and Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam into a rigorous constitutional argument. Neither polemic nor partisan tract, this is a call to constitutional fidelity: a democracy that forces citizens to repeatedly prove they belong weakens the moral authority of its own Constitution. Essential reading for anyone concerned with Indian democracy.

• Paperback: 428 pages
• Publisher: White Falcon Publishing; 1 edition (September 2026)
• Author: Madabhushi Sridhar Acharyulu
• ISBN-13: 9789376313334
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 9 inch

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