MAPPING CITIZENSHIP IN INDIA

 Anupama Roy

This book lucidly describes the history of citizenship in India, before moving on to discuss the nature of citizenship in a society where inequalities pose a grave threat to social justice. The political scientist Anupama Roy traces the amendments in the Citizenship Act, 1955, and argues that the legal framing of the citizen involves a production of its other—the non-citizen. Through a discussion of laws and judgments, the work brings out the relationship between citizenship and migration in independent India, particularly in the wake of the breakdown of rural economies.

Oxford University Press, 253 pages, Rs 595