Editore: Permanent Black, 2015
ISBN 10: 8178244608 ISBN 13: 9788178244600
Da: Majestic Books, Hounslow, Regno Unito
Condizione: New. pp. 376.
Editore: Permanent Black, 2015
ISBN 10: 8178244608 ISBN 13: 9788178244600
Da: Biblios, Frankfurt am main, HESSE, Germania
Condizione: New.
Editore: Permanent Black, 2015
ISBN 10: 8178244608 ISBN 13: 9788178244600
Da: Books in my Basket, New Delhi, India
Soft cover. Condizione: New. ISBN:9788178244600 N.A.
Editore: Permanent Black, 2017
ISBN 10: 8178244608 ISBN 13: 9788178244600
Da: Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd, New Delhi, India
Prima edizione
Soft cover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. Breaking new ground in scholarship, this is the first history of citizenship in 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. Citizenship and Its Discontents explores a century of contestations over citizenship from the colonial period to the present, analysing 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 and weak solidarity. Once seen by Western political scientists as an anomaly, India today is a site where every major theoretical debate about citizenship is being enacted in practice, and one that no global discussion of the subject can afford to ignore.
Editore: ORIENT BLACK SWAN, 2015
ISBN 10: 8178244608 ISBN 13: 9788178244600
Da: dsmbooks, Liverpool, Regno Unito
Paperback. Condizione: Like New. Like New. book.