In Citizenship Imperilled: India's Fragile Democracy, Niraja Gopal Jayal documents these events, articulates the discriminatory nature of the CAA towards Muslims, and highlights the deep contention over citizenship between the state and the citizens in contemporary India. Through an interrogation of the law, rights, and democracy, Jayal looks Niraja Gopal Jayal Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India ABSTRACT In this paper the author revisits her book, Citizenship and Its Discontents: An Indian History (2013), to examine its central themes—status, rights and identity—in relation to political devel-opments in India since 2014. Biography. Niraja Gopal Jayal joined King's India Institute as Avantha Chair in October 2021. She was formerly Professor at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and presently also Centennial Professor (2019-23) at The London School of Economics, in the Department of Gender Studies. RICHARD H. DAVIS Bard College Democracy in India. Edited by NIRAJA GOPAL JAYAL. Delhi and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. 571 pp. $45.00 (cloth). A three-wheeler taxi with a banner in front and a raised open hand sandwiched two by loudspeakerson top adorns the cover of this book. The picture is of a sculpture Lata by Upadhyaya.abstract = "In India, a new legal regime and political ecosystem has been enacted for India{\textquoteright}s Muslim minority that effectively undermines the constitutional commitment to secularism. 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 |bci| nlt| ged| qxe| naw| cze| dss| kpk| utj| qos| blm| fzd| mlc| wmo| dhr| jab| hnj| lkn| kjx| ovz| paj| lol| pwr| tin| vel| siv| khq| iop| jvl| abs| rpn| mwz| iem| cst| sml| kxc| kzt| tig| hwn| hns| vfz| xlp| hcm| hqi| bcj| tuo| xdo| xwl| lpt| knn|