Citizenship and Its Discontents

Niraja Gopal Jayal

Harvard University Press, Feb 15, 2013 - Political Science - 346 pages

This book considers how the civic ideals embodied in India’s constitution are undermined by exclusions based on social and economic inequalities, sometimes even by its own strategies of inclusion. Once seen by Westerners as a political anomaly, India today is the case study that no global discussion of democracy and citizenship can ignore.

About the author

Niraja Gopal Jayal is Professor at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance at Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Citizenship and Its Discontents
• Author: Niraja Gopal Jayal
• Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2013
• ISBN: 0674066847, 9780674066847
• Length: 346 pages
• Subjects: Law / Legal History; Political Science / Civics & Citizenship; Political Science / World / Asian