The road is as rutted as it was when I first travelled down it in 2017. Each time our car hit a pothole, the driver gave me a sharp glance, as if wanting to ask if we would not have been better off just avoiding this trip after all. We would not. Goroimari revenue circle, in Assam’s Kamrup Rural district, has been a ‘must visit’ every time I came to my state to report on the update of the National Register of Citizens (NRC). For the last two years, I have been visiting some of the villages within Goroimari, several of which are populated only by Muslims of Bengali descent.

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