An examination of how, despite similar historical contexts, India became a stable democracy post-independence, whilst Pakistan became an unstable autocracy.
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 …
"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 …
"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 …
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 s…
As evidenced in these essays, Kaviraj's exceptional technique positions Indian politics within the political philosophy of the West and alongside perspectives from Indian history and indigenous political thought.