CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Rohit Sarma |
|---|---|
| Title | Citizenship and Belonging in the Subcontinent: A Conceptual and Contextual Exploration |
| Summary | This thesis explores the nature of citizenship through an analysis of the legal systems of India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. In doing so, it seeks to argue that the citizenship rules of a state are influenced by the actions of a multiplicity of actors and that therefore, a simplistic analysis of the concept which assumes that it is designed by the political leadership and imposed upon the people does not suffice. On the contrary, it seeks to defend the claim that the citizenship rules of a state are born out of continuous negotiations between the institutions of the state and the people residing therein. While making this claim, this thesis firstly unbundles certain key characteristics of the concept of citizenship as it developed in Europe and its colonies. Thereafter, it utilises these characteristics to provide a conceptual framework while describing the history of the concept in the Subcontinent. Emphasis throughout this description is placed on the factors and actors responsible for its development with the objective of bringing placing both the citizen as well as the aspiring citizen in the centre of politics regarding citizenship. |
| Supervisor | Uitz, Renata |
| Department | Legal Studies LLM |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/sarma_rohit.pdf |
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