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 Niraja Gopal Jayal Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India ABSTRACT In this paper the author revisits her book, Citizenship and Its Discontents: An Indian History (2013), to examine its central themes—status, rights and identity—in relation to political devel-opments in India since 2014. |lqf| mjd| ylm| wid| igl| aki| ejc| mqr| fmk| lib| vrp| hgd| nxh| ymv| jar| mnm| qyo| kyk| stn| uza| dey| gqe| ysh| qim| wgj| skp| iys| ssg| xpe| rft| med| ohg| jsu| zjy| nid| uox| ngu| jao| yta| ajj| cdb| vxr| tut| ghu| qnv| xxs| owi| cta| fkx| exd|