| ID | 097139 |
| Title Proper | Citizenship as conceptual flow |
| Other Title Information | a moveable feast? |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Mitra, Subrata |
| Publication | 2010. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | The books reviewed here deal with issues that are integral to the global problem of citizenship and its conceptual flow in time and space. Although not explicitly political, they point towards the difficulty of achieving liberal citizenship in illiberal societies where mass mobilization has often led to the decline of modernity and liberal institutions. Is it possible for people whose identities are radically different to share a common space to which they feel morally committed, without having to dissolve their differences? The stories of the rise and fall of 'heartlands' in Uttar Pradesh, struggling Christian minorities in Pakistan, and ownership of the Taj Mahal, a revered and much loved Islamic shrine in a primarily Hindu society, share this question in common. This new research agenda that these books generate has the potential for the construction of an indigenous and hybrid citizenship, and the reconfiguration of power under a different form of institutions and rules with no fixed, narrow, empirical referents, akin to the sense of belonging that visitors to the noble Taj celebrate, even though ever so fleetingly. |
| `In' analytical Note | Contemporary South Asia Vol. 18, No. 2; Jun 2010: p.215 - 224 |
| Journal Source | Contemporary South Asia Vol. 18, No. 2; Jun 2010: p.215 - 224 |
| Key Words | Citizenship ; Flow ; Heartland ; Taj Mahal ; Pakistan ; Christianity |