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<p>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.</p> <p><i>Citizenship and Its Discontents</i> 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

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Author

Niraja Gopal Jayal

Publisher

Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674066847

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Political Science, Fiction

Rating

3.5 / 5 (6 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14