Jayal, Niraja Gopal.

Citizenship and its discontents : an Indian history / Niraja Gopal Jayal. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2013. - viii, 366 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references(p. [329]-350) 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.

9780674066847 (alk. paper)

2012018084


Citizenship--History.--India
Civics, East Indian.


India--Politics and government--1947-

JQ283 / .J39 2013

323.60954 / JAY/C