Citizenship and its discontents : an Indian history /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Jayal, Niraja Gopal
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Since 1947
Citizenship > India > History.
Civics, East Indian.
Citizenship > India > History
Law, other
Law
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Civics & Citizenship.
Citizenship
Civics, East Indian
Politics and government
Bürgerrecht
Staatsangehörigkeit
Political science & theory.
Miscellaneous items.
India.
Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999.
21st century, c 2000 to c 2100.
Civics & citizenship.
Religion & politics.
Politics and Government.
India > Politics and government > 1947-
Inde > Politique et gouvernement > 1947-
India
Indien
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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