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Citizenship and Its Discontents : An Indian History /

Breaking new ground in scholarship, Niraja Jayal writes the first history of citizenship in the largest democracy in the world-India. Unlike the mature democracies of the west, India began as a true republic of equals with a complex architecture of citizenship rights that was sensitive to the many h...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Jayal, Niraja Gopal (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Subject-Citizen
  • 2 Legal Citizenship and the Long Shadow of the Partition
  • 3 Aspirational Citizenship
  • 4 Pedagogies of Duty, Protestations of Rights
  • 5 The Unsocial Compact
  • 6 Social Citizenship in Neoliberal Times
  • 7 Genealogies of Mediated Citizenship
  • 8 Passages from Backwardness to Citizenship
  • 9 The Future of the Civic Community
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • References
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index