AdvertisementIn India's Assam State, Residents Of River Islands Face Uncertainty Over CitizenshipJuly 21, 2019CK VijayakumarfacebookEmailA young man living on a small river island known as a char heads out to catch a boat and cross the Brahmaputra River to the mainland, in Assam's Barpeta district. To live in Assam legally, people must be registered by the government. But some 4 million people have been excluded from the National Register of Citizens, a sort of statewide census. (CK Vijayakumar for NPR)