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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jayal, Niraja Gopal
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The subject-citizen: a colonial anomaly
  • Legal citizenship and the long shadow of the partition
  • Aspirational citizenship: migrants and emigrants
  • Pedagogies of duty, protestations of rights
  • The unsocial compact
  • Social citizenship in neo-liberal times
  • Genealogies of mediated citizenship
  • Passages from backwardness to citizenship
  • The future of the civic community.