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C I T I Z E N S H I P AND ITS DISCONTENTS AN INDIAN HISTORY NIRAJA GOPAL JAYAL Citizenship and Its Discontents Citizenship a nd Its Discontents An Indian History Niraja Gopal Jayal Harvard University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England 2013 Copyright © 2013 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Jayal, Niraja Gopal. Citizenship and its discontents: an Indian history / Niraja Gopal Jayal. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-674-06684-7 (alk. paper) 1. Citizenship—India—History. 2. India—Politics and government—1947– 3. Civics, East Indian. I. Title. JQ283.J39 2013 323.60954—dc23 2012018084 For Rakesh exemplary citizen of the local and Gayatri global citizen extraordinary Contents Introduction 1 Part One Status 1 Th e Subject-Citizen: A Colonial Anomaly 27 2 Legal Citizenship and the Long Shadow of the Partition 51 3 Aspirational Citizenship: Migrants and Emigrants 82 Part Two Rights 4 Pedagogies of Duty, Protestations of Rights 109 5 Th e Unsocial Compact 136 6 Social Citizenship in Neoliberal Times 163 viii Contents Part Three Identity 7 Genealogies of Mediated Citizenship 199 8 Passages from Backwardness to Citizenship 229 9 Th e Future of the Civic Community 254 Epilogue 273 Notes 285 References 329 Acknowledgments 351 Index 357 Citizenship and Its Discontents
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