Republican Citizenship in French Colonial Pondicherry, 1870-1914

Anne Raffin

Published by Amsterdam University Press 2022

Republican Citizenship in French Colonial Pondicherry, 1870-1914

Anne Raffin

Volume 13 in the series Asian History

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048553556

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Republican Citizenship in French Colonial Pondicherry, 1870-1914 revisits and analyses the earlier part of the Third Republic, when France granted citizenship rights to Indians in Pondicherry. This work of historical sociology explores the nature of this colonial citizenship and enables comparisons with British India, especially the Madras Presidency, as well as the rest of the French empire, as a means of demonstrating how unique the practice of granting such rights was.
The difficulties of implementing a new political culture based on the language of rights and participatory political institutions were not so much rooted in a lack of assimilation into the French culture on the part of the Indian population. Rather, they were the result of political infighting and long-term conflicts over status, both in relation to caste and class, and between inclusive and exclusive visions of French citizenship.

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Raffin Anne :

Anne Raffin is an associate professor in the sociology department at the National University of Singapore. She specializes in historical sociology, focusing on French colonialism in Asia and its legacies. Her research has concentrated on French Indochina and colonial Pondicherry, India.

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"Anne Raffin’s thoroughly researched and thoughtfully argued book treats citizenship less as a legal category than as a framework for making claims. More complicated than a dichotomy of French citizens and indigenous subjects, politics in French India entailed multisided mobilizations to preserve, reform, or overturn an unequal social order. Raffin raises basic questions about sovereignty, citizenship, and difference in a colonial situation that was both unique and a microcosm of empire."
- Frederick Cooper, Professor at New York University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Asian History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	2
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
List of Diagrams, Graphs, Images, Maps, and Tables Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
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1. Pondicherry in the French Empire during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
2. Contextualizing Pondicherry within the French Empire and the Indian Subcontinent Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
3. Inclusive and Exclusive Visions of Citizenship in French India Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
4. Education and Army Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
5. The Art of Petitioning in a Colonial Setting Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
6. From Electoral Politics to Expansion of Rights and National Independence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
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Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 250
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 10
Keywords: French colonialism; India; citizenship; democratization

eBook

Published: January 27, 2022
ISBN: 9789048553556