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Gendered Citizenship
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 312

Gendered Citizenship

Adopting a historical conceptual approach, this book examines the gendering of citizenship. It argues that through successive historical periods, `becoming a citizen has involved a gradual extension of the status, to more and more persons and groups, in particular, women, which resulted in a more inclusive and egalitarian structure. But, the promise of equal membership in the politcal community masks the exclusionary framework that defines citizenship as found in caste hierarchies, gender differences, and divides between religious communities based on majority and minority status. Engaging with contemporary debates on citizenship that place themselves within the framework of multiculturalism and world citizenship this work asserts the need to redefine the notion of community by focussing on citizenship as a measure of activity and practice, and by exposing the subtleties of role definition of women implicit in community norms.

Constructing the Criminal Tribe in Colonial India
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 176

Constructing the Criminal Tribe in Colonial India

Constructing the Criminal Tribe in Colonial India provides a detailed overview of the phenomenon of the “criminal tribe” in India from the early days of colonial rule to the present. Traces and analyzes historical debates in historiography, anthropology and criminology Argues that crime in the colonial context is used as much to control subject populations as to define morally repugnant behavior Explores how crime evolved as the foil of political legitimacy under military Examines the popular movement that has arisen to reverse the discrimination against the millions of people laboring under the stigma of criminal inheritance, producing a radical culture that contests stereotypes to reclaim their humanity

Civilising Natures
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 344

Civilising Natures

Science, both as a scholarly discipline and as a concept in the popular imagination, was critical to building hegemony in the British Empire. It also inspired alternative ideas of progress by elites and the disenfranchised: these competing spectres continue to haunt postcolonial modernities. Why and how has science so powerfully shaped both the common sense of individuals and the development of postcolonial states? Philip suggests that our ideas of race and resources are key. Civilising Natures tells us how race and nature are fundamental to understanding colonial modernities, and along the way, it complicates our understandings of the relationships between science and religion, pre-modern and civilised, environment and society.

Europe's Indians
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 307

Europe's Indians

Europe’s Indians forces a rethinking of key assumptions regarding difference—particularly racial difference—and its centrality to contemporary social and political theory. Tracing shifts in European representations of two different colonial spaces, the New World and India, from the late fifteenth century through the late nineteenth, Vanita Seth demonstrates that the classification of humans into racial categories or binaries of self–other is a product of modernity. Part historical, part philosophical, and part a history of science, her account exposes the epistemic conditions that enabled the thinking of difference at distinct historical junctures. Seth’s examination of Renaissance...

Racializing the Soldier
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

Racializing the Soldier

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-05-23
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Racializing the Soldier explores the impact of racial beliefs on the formation and development of modern armed forces and the ways in which these forces have been presented and historicized from a global perspective. With a wide geographical and temporal spread, the collection looks at the disparate ways that race has influenced military development. In particular, it explores the extent to which ideas of racial hierarchy and type have conditioned thinking about what kinds of soldiers should be used and in what roles. This volume offers a highly original military, social and cultural history, questioning the borders both of racialization and of the military itself. It considers the extent to...

Empire, Emergency and International Law
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 343

Empire, Emergency and International Law

  • Categories: Law

This book analyses the states of emergency exposing the intersections between colonial law, international law, imperialism and racial discrimination.

Legalizing the Revolution
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 509

Legalizing the Revolution

  • Categories: Law

Theorizes the project of instituting a postcolonial order following decolonization, though an account of the Indian constitution.

Dishonoured by History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 222

Dishonoured by History

This book explores how colonial policies converted itinerant groups on the one hand into a source of cheap labour and on the other into a category known as criminal tribes . It also examines missionary activity especially the Salvation Army, in the Madras Presidency in the nineteenth century.

Historiography: Politics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 454

Historiography: Politics

This collection aims to enable the reader to disentangle some of the ambiguities and confusions which have characterized the use of the term 'historiography'.

D Gliitz Magazine august issue
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 126

D Gliitz Magazine august issue

D GLIITZ is a lifestyle magazine and in our latest edition you’d be delighted with articles on travel, must watch ‘desi’ and ‘videshi’ shows. A quirky face-mask photoshoot to give you an idea on how to ace the latest fashion accessory this season. Explore your inner-chef with authentic recipes from the handbook of an Indian kitchen to styling tips from an international model and designer and many such interesting topics.