Citizenship and Its Discontents: An Indian History

Niraja Gopal Jayal

Published by Harvard University Press 2013

Citizenship and Its Discontents

An Indian History

Niraja Gopal Jayal

https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674067585

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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 hierarchies of Indian society. In this provocative biography of the defining aspiration of modern India, Jayal shows how the progressive civic ideals embodied in the constitution have been challenged by exclusions based on social and economic inequality, and sometimes also, paradoxically, undermined by its own policies of inclusion.

Citizenship and Its Discontents explores a century of contestations over citizenship from the colonial period to the present, analyzing evolving conceptions of citizenship as legal status, as rights, and as identity. The early optimism that a new India could be fashioned out of an unequal and diverse society led to a formally inclusive legal membership, an impulse to social and economic rights, and group-differentiated citizenship. Today, these policies to create a civic community of equals are losing support in a climate of social intolerance and weak solidarity. Once seen by Western political scientists as an anomaly, India today is a site where every major theoretical debate about citizenship is being enacted in practice, and one that no global discussion of the subject can afford to ignore.

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Niraja Gopal Jayal is Professor at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance at Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part One: Status
1 The Subject-Citizen A Colonial Anomaly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
2 Legal Citizenship and the Long Shadow of the Partition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
3 Aspirational Citizenship Migrants and Emigrants Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
Part Two: Rights
4 Pedagogies of Duty, Protestations of Rights Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
5 The Unsocial Compact Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
6 Social Citizenship in Neoliberal Times Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Part Three: Identity
7 Genealogies of Mediated Citizenship Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
8 Passages from Backwardness to Citizenship Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
9 The Future of the Civic Community Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	254
Epilogue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351
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Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Audience: Academics, Students, Libraries, Institutes
Pages
- Main content: 346

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Published: February 15, 2013
ISBN: 9780674067585