Ornit Shani

How India Became Democratic

Citizenship and the Making of the Universal Franchise

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Uncovers the greatest experiment in democratic history: the creation of the electoral roll and universal adult franchise in India.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 164mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 549g
• ISBN-13: 9781107068032
• ISBN-10: 1107068037
• Artikelnr.: 48917243

Autorenporträt

Ornit Shani is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Asian Studies, University of Haifa, Israel.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Designing for democracy: rewriting the bureaucratic colonial imagination
2. The pursuit of citizenship in the making of the electoral roll: registering partition refugees
3. The roll as 'serialised epic' and the personalisation of the universal franchise
4. Disciplining the federal structure
5. Shaping the constitution from below and the role of the Secretariat
6. The limits of inclusion
Conclusion: a 17 crore and 220 yard democracy.