Citizenship and its discontents an Indian history - Jayal, Niraja Gopal; ebrary, Inc. (Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2013)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: Citizenship -- India -- History; Civics, East Indian; India -- Politics and government -- 1947-; Electronic books