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This book offers a unique analysis of when and why citizenship has taken root in India. Each chapter highlights the constant innovation and re-innovation of citizenship that has occurred in India´s legal, political, social, economic and aesthetic arrangements.

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The book addresses the very topical subject of citizen making. By delving into a range of sources - among them survey questions, historical documents, architectural design, and public policy - the book provides a unique analysis of when and why citizenship has taken root in India. Each chapter highlights the constant innovation of citizenship that has occurred in India´s legal, political, social, economic and aesthetic arrangements as well as providing the basis for comparative analysis across South Asian cases and between India and the European Union

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Introduction: Citizenship today-Shifting Paradigms, Hybridization, or plus ‡a change?.- Part I: Reimagining the liberal canon.- From T. H. Marshall to Jawaharlal Nehru: Citizenship as Vision and Strategy.- Reluctant and Excluded Citizens, Differentiated and Multilevel Citizenship-Where the Indian and the European Discourse on Citizenship Meet.- Turning Aliens into Citizens: A "Toolkit" for a Transdisciplinary Policy Analysis.- Part II: Citizenship in National and Transnational Contexts: The European Union, Sri Lanka, and India.- European Citizenship: A Concept of Interrelatedness and Conditionality.- Who is a Citizen? A Multidimensional Question.- Citizenship in India: Evolution, Involution, and Rational Construction.- Part III: Flow differentiated: Belief, Education, Class, Tribe, and Space.- The Effects of Globalisation on Citizenship in India-The Changing Role of Education.- Transnational Religion and Flexible Citizenship in Britain and India.- Globalisation, Economic Citizenship, and India´s Inclusive Developmentalism.- Inheritance of Kingly Citizenship: Tribals at Crossroads in the Modern State of Orissa.- Building Citizenship: The Agency of Public Buildings and Urban Planning in the Making of the Indian Citizen.

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