Citizenship and Its Discontents : : An Indian History /

Citizenship and Its Discontents : : An Indian History / / Niraja Gopal Jayal.

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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 h...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2013
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Jayal, Niraja Gopal,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (346 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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