Notes from a contested history of National Identity Card in India:1999-2007
People first have to develop confidence in written document before it could supplant familiar oral and written records.
Multi-Purpose National Identity Card
1. Origins: The Kargil War
In the sweltering heat of May 1999, as the plane carrying The Chief of Army Staff General Ved Prakash Malik crossed the Indian territorial skies to far away Poland, Malik could have hardly imagined that the lines of actual control on the ground beneath his feet were changing.
People first have to develop confidence in written document before it could supplant familiar oral and written records.
Multi-Purpose National Identity Card
1. Origins: The Kargil War
In the sweltering heat of May 1999, as the plane carrying The Chief of Army Staff General Ved Prakash Malik crossed the Indian territorial skies to far away Poland, Malik could have hardly imagined that the lines of actual control on the ground beneath his feet were changing.
