Citizenship as Cultural Flow

This book offers a unique analysis of when and why citizenship has taken root in India. Each chapter highlights the constant innovation and re-innovation of citizenship that has occurred in India's legal, political, social, economic and aesthetic arrangements.

The book addresses the very topical subject of citizen making. By delving into a range of sources - among them survey questions, historical documents, political theory, architectural design, and public policy - the book provides a unique analysis of when and why citizenship has taken root in India. Each chapter highlights the constant innovation of citizenship that has occurred in India's legal, political, social, economic and aesthetic arrangements as well as providing the basis for comparative analysis across South Asian cases and the European Union.

Addresses the very topical subject of citizen making Provides a unique analysis of when and why citizenship has taken root in India Supplies the basis for comparative analysis across South Asian cases and between India and the European Union Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Introduction: Citizenship todayShifting Paradigms, Hybridization, or plus ça change?.- Part I: Reimagining the liberal canon.- From T. H. Marshall to Jawaharlal Nehru: Citizenship as Vision and Strategy.- Reluctant and Excluded Citizens, Differentiated and Multilevel CitizenshipWhere the Indian and the European Discourse on Citizenship Meet.- Turning Aliens into Citizens: A Toolkit for a Transdisciplinary Policy Analysis.- Part II: Citizenship in National and Transnational Contexts: The European Union, Sri Lanka, and India.- European Citizenship: A Concept of Interrelatedness and Conditionality.- Who is a Citizen? A Multidimensional Question.- Citizenship in India: Evolution, Involution, and Rational Construction.- Part III: Flow differentiated: Belief, Education, Class, Tribe, and Space.- The Effects of Globalisation on Citizenship in IndiaThe Changing Role of Education.- Transnational Religion and Flexible Citizenship in Britain and India.- Globalisation, Economic Citizenship, and India's Inclusive Developmentalism.- Inheritance of Kingly Citizenship: Tribals at Crossroads in the Modern State of Orissa.- Building Citizenship: The Agency of Public Buildings and Urban Planning in the Making of the Indian Citizen.