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The Centre for Comparative Political Thought presents Citizenship and Its Discontents: An Indian History Prof. Niraja Gopal Jayal (JNU, Delhi and King’s India Institute) Discussant: Prof. Engin Isin (Open University) Tuesday 11 November 2014, 5pm, SOAS Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre Abstract: What does a history of the Indian idea of citizenship tell us about the life of this concept in translation? Drawing upon her book of the same name, Niraja Gopal Jayal will explore some of the many ways in which citizenship in India is understood and claimed, abrogated and violated. In the course of the twentieth century, the idea of citizenship in India acquires meanings that inform the struggles of a subjugated people; the constitutional embodiment of their aspirations; and enduring conflicts over what is entailed in the ideal of citizenship. What tools might the ideational history of this deeply contested concept in Indian practice provide for a productive conversation about citizenship in spatially and temporally diverse contexts? Niraja Gopal Jayal is Professor at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance at the Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her books include Citizenship and Its Discontents: An Indian History (Harvard University Press, 2013); Representing India: Ethnic Diversity and the Governance of Public Institutions (2006); and Democracy and the State: Welfare, Secularism and Development in Contemporary India (1999). Engin Isin is Professor of Politics at the Faculty of Social Sciences, the Open University. His books include Enacting European Citizenship (2013), Citizens without Frontiers (2012), and Citizenship and Identity (1999).
Posted on: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 01:40:41 +0000

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