Citizenship and Its Discontents : An Indian History.
Jayal, Niraja Gopal.
Citizenship and Its Discontents : An Indian History. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (377 pages)
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.
9780674067585
Citizenship-India-History.
Civics, East Indian.
India-Politics and government-1947-.
Electronic books.
JQ283
323.60954
Citizenship and Its Discontents : An Indian History. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (377 pages)
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.
9780674067585
Citizenship-India-History.
Civics, East Indian.
India-Politics and government-1947-.
Electronic books.
JQ283
323.60954