Republican Citizenship in French Colonial Pondicherry, 1870-1914

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  DESCRIPTION

  248 p.

  SERIES

  Asian History
  

  DISCIPLINES

  • General history of Asia South Asia
  • Asia (History)

  NOTE

  • This work of historical sociology revisits and analyses the earlier part of the Third Republic (1870-1914), when France granted citizenship rights to Indians in Pondicherry. It explores the nature of this colonial citizenship and enables comparisons with British India, especially the Madras Presidency, as well as the rest of the French empire, as a means of demonstrating how unique the practice of granting such rights was.ifficulties of implementing a new political culture based on the language of rights and participatory political institutions were not so much rooted in a lack of assimilation into the French culture on the part of the Indian population; rather, they were the result of political infighting and long-term conflicts over status, both in relation to caste and class, and between inclusive and exclusive visions of French citizenship. [Publisher's text].
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