Jayal, Niraja Gopal.

Citizenship and its discontents an Indian history / [electronic resource] : Niraja Gopal Jayal. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2013. - viii, 366 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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Palo Alto, Calif. :
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2013.
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Citizenship--History.--India
Civics, East Indian.


India--Politics and government--1947-


Electronic books.

JQ283 / .J39 2013eb

323.60954