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ON CITIZENSHIP

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Publication details: New Delhi Aleph Book Company 2021/01/01Edition: 1Description: 162ISBN:
  • 9788194937289
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 323.60954 ROM/ON
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The essays in this volume give the reader a proper understanding of what Indian citizenship means, the threats to it, and what each citizen of this country needs to do, in the words of N. Ram, to reflect on and reset perspectives on what secular, democratic, rights-bearing citizenship means in the contemporary world and what needs to be done to find a way back to the core values of the Indian republic as set out in the preamble to the constitutionjustice, liberty, equality, and fraternity.In On Citizenship, four of Indias finest public intellectuals go deep into key aspects of what constitutes citizenship in India, an issue that has lately been the subject of furious public debate, as a result of controversial decisions by the government in power.In the lead essay in this volume, The Right to be a Citizen, the historian Romila Thapar explores how citizenship evolved in India and the rest of the world. In addition, she examines the rights of citizens and analyses the states duties towards its citizens.In his essay, The Evolving Politics of Citizenship in Republican India, the editor and political commentator N. Ram provides a cogent and succinct political history of citizenship in the sovereign, secular, democratic republic of India.

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