Author: IndiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Reports on the Working of the Reformed Constitution, 1927
Author: IndiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Citizenship and Its Discontents
Author: Niraja Gopal JayalPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674070992
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
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. Citizenship and Its Discontents 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 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.
Elite Conflict in a Plural Society
Author: J. H. BroomfieldPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : Bengal (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Quarterly Journal of the Local Self Government Institute (Bombay).
Author: Local Self-Government Institute (Bombay)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Monthly List, Government Publications
Author: IndiaIndian Constitutional Reforms
Author: Great Britain. India OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Riots And Victims
Author: Patricia A. GossmanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000310167
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
In recent decades, the world has witnessed the emergence of several protracted violent conflicts and the eruption of ethnic and communal violence in countries such as Bosnia, Rwanda, and Sri Lanka. Riots and Victims challenges the popular academic interpretation of such events as examples of tribal slaughter or spontaneous eruptions, fueled by historic conflict between religious and ethnic communities. This book examines the origins and consequences of the violence that occurred between the Muslim and Hindu communities in pre-partition Bengal, which ultimately resulted in the creation of Pakistan. Gossman argues that communal violence and communal identity were not merely the consequences of long-term animosities, but rather ploys orchestrated by mid-level politicians for their own advancement and aggrandizement. Riots and Victims introduces new analyses of local violence and identity, and explores issues of far-reaching importance.
The Indian Review
Author: G.A. NatesanProceedings
Author: The Congress in Tamilnad
Author: David ArnoldPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315294192
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Although primarily defined in cultural terms, as the land of the Tamil-speaking people, Tamilnad’s geographical location in the south-eastern corner of the Indian sub-continent has enabled it to develop and maintain a distinctive character. The story of the Congress in Tamilnad has two essential themes. One is the evolution of the Tamil Congress as a regional political party. The second is the changing relationship between a nationalist movement and a colonial regime. Examining in close detail these themes, this book, first published in 1977, presents the story of the Congress in Tamilnad as a case-study of how nationalist parties evolved during the later stages of colonialism.