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An eye for an I:recording biometrics and reconsidering identity in postcolonial India

Author:
Nair, Vijayanka  


Journal:
CONTEMPORARY SOUTH ASIA


Issue Date:
2018


Abstract(summary):

In 2009, the Government of India embarked on a mission to issue each of India's over one billion residents a unique biometric identification number, Aadhaar (literally, 'foundation'). An Aadhaar database would link the demographic and biometric information (iris scans, fingerprints, facial photograph) of residents to a 12-digit number. India currently commands the world's largest biometric database. While Aadhaar does not guarantee citizenship, benefits, or services, its architects submit that its reliable, real-time identity verification infrastructure potentially allows for the targeted delivery of any good to its intended recipient. Aadhaar is fashioned as an ID concerned with a pristine bodily uniqueness untarnished by the social, political, or economic. Aadhaar frequently provokes the questions: Who is the recipient of Aadhaar and to what community does Aadhaar afford membership? Based on ethnographic fieldwork in India's capital, New Delhi, this article examines how Aadhaar comes to inform ideas of identity and belonging held by its implementers, as well as the population it targets.


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