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The Citizenship Acts 1948–1964

Statutory disenfranchisement of Hill-Country Tamils; 55-year road to citizenship.

Version
v1.0
Target pages
22
Status
ready
Source asset
Critical Research · Dossier 02

Written for

  • Primary
    Press & Long-form
    Guardian Long Read · LRB · NYRB · Reuters Investigates
  • Secondary
    Institutes
    Chatham House · ICG · Clingendael · GPPi · ODI
  • Secondary
    Parliamentary
    UK APPGs · HoC Library · FCDO · MEP staff

Structural skeleton

  1. 01Cover · publication type · author · programme
  2. 02Summary points (3–7 bullets)
  3. 03Introduction · scope · methodology note
  4. 04Section I–III · thematic
  5. 05Conclusions · policy implications
  6. 06Recommendations · grouped by audience
  7. 07Footnotes · MHRA

Skeleton derived from canonical examples — see the Reading Room Phase 1 briefing for provenance.

Provenance

Every claim in this dossier is footnoted to the live source page at /critical-research/citizenship-acts. If the live source changes, this dossier is rebuilt and the version bumped. SHA-256 of the PDF and citation manifest are published alongside each version.

Printable PDF · v1.0

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