Citizenship and Its Discontents: An Indian HistoryBreaking new ground in scholarship, Niraja Jayal writes the first history of citizenship in the largest democracy in the world India. Unlike the mature democracies of the west, India began as a true republic of equals with a complex architecture of citizenship rights that was sensitive to the many hierarchies of Indian society. In this provocative biography of the defining aspiration of modern India, Jayal shows how the progressive civic ideals