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Citizenship and Its Discontents : An Indian History.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (377 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674067585
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Citizenship and Its DiscontentsDDC classification:
  • 323.60954
LOC classification:
  • JQ283
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One - Status -- 1. The Subject-Citizen: A Colonial Anomaly -- 2. Legal Citizenship and the Long Shadow of the Partition -- 3. Aspirational Citizenship: Migrants and Emigrants -- Part Two - Rights -- 4. Pedagogies of Duty, Protestations of Rights -- 5. The Unsocial Compact -- 6. Social Citizenship in Neoliberal Times -- Part Three - Identity -- 7. Genealogies of Mediated Citizenship -- 8. Passages from Backwardness to Citizenship -- 9. The Future of the Civic Community -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: The idea of citizenship in India has evolved from legal status to rights to identity over the past century. Early optimism for a true republic of equals is challenged today. Once seen as an anomaly, India is where every major theoretical debate about citizenship is being enacted, and a place no global discussion of citizenship can afford to ignore.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One - Status -- 1. The Subject-Citizen: A Colonial Anomaly -- 2. Legal Citizenship and the Long Shadow of the Partition -- 3. Aspirational Citizenship: Migrants and Emigrants -- Part Two - Rights -- 4. Pedagogies of Duty, Protestations of Rights -- 5. The Unsocial Compact -- 6. Social Citizenship in Neoliberal Times -- Part Three - Identity -- 7. Genealogies of Mediated Citizenship -- 8. Passages from Backwardness to Citizenship -- 9. The Future of the Civic Community -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

The idea of citizenship in India has evolved from legal status to rights to identity over the past century. Early optimism for a true republic of equals is challenged today. Once seen as an anomaly, India is where every major theoretical debate about citizenship is being enacted, and a place no global discussion of citizenship can afford to ignore.

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