"Democratizing Citizenship in India: The Making of the First Election" lecture by Dr. Ornit Shani at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 16th February 2012
Time : 3:00 pm
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Seminar Room, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library ( NMML ), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi
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Event Details : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to The Seminar on ‘Democratizing Citizenship in India: The Making of the First Election’ by Dr. Ornit Shani, Department of Asian Studies, University of Haifa, Israel
Abstract : India became independent in the wake of a violent partition that was followed by the passage of ordinances and the creation of institutions that were not conducive to a democratic path. Despite such inauspicious beginnings, India’s democracy would sustain almost without interruption. This paper explores the origins of how democratic nationhood became institutionalised, and has continued to endure in India. I propose that two key processes - constitutional and organisational - that took place along the unfolding partition, and that were intricately linked, became a driving force in the institutionalisation of democratic nationhood in India. The first revolved around the conceptions that informed the nature of the relations between the state and its would be citizens in the process of constitution making. The second process, which took place on the ground, was the preparation from November 1947 of the electoral roll on the basis of universal franchise for the first election that was compiled in anticipation of the new constitution and the electoral law. This was a bold operation, wherein the newly born state engaged with all its would be adult citizens. In this paper I will develop an argument about the specific roles that these two processes played in democratizing citizenship in India and their contribution to its resilience after independence.
Speaker : Dr. Ornit Shani is a Senior Lecturer and the Head of the Department of Asian Studies, where she is also the Director of the India Programme. She was a Research Fellow at St. John’s College, Cambridge University, where she also obtained her PhD. She was a Visiting Professor at the Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi and a visiting researcher at the Council for Social Development, New Delhi. She is the author of Communalism, Caste and Hindu Nationalism (2007). Her current research focuses on the democratization of citizenship in India, and India’s first post independence elections.
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Seminar Room, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library ( NMML ), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Race Course(Yellow Line)'
Event Details : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to The Seminar on ‘Democratizing Citizenship in India: The Making of the First Election’ by Dr. Ornit Shani, Department of Asian Studies, University of Haifa, Israel
Abstract : India became independent in the wake of a violent partition that was followed by the passage of ordinances and the creation of institutions that were not conducive to a democratic path. Despite such inauspicious beginnings, India’s democracy would sustain almost without interruption. This paper explores the origins of how democratic nationhood became institutionalised, and has continued to endure in India. I propose that two key processes - constitutional and organisational - that took place along the unfolding partition, and that were intricately linked, became a driving force in the institutionalisation of democratic nationhood in India. The first revolved around the conceptions that informed the nature of the relations between the state and its would be citizens in the process of constitution making. The second process, which took place on the ground, was the preparation from November 1947 of the electoral roll on the basis of universal franchise for the first election that was compiled in anticipation of the new constitution and the electoral law. This was a bold operation, wherein the newly born state engaged with all its would be adult citizens. In this paper I will develop an argument about the specific roles that these two processes played in democratizing citizenship in India and their contribution to its resilience after independence.
Speaker : Dr. Ornit Shani is a Senior Lecturer and the Head of the Department of Asian Studies, where she is also the Director of the India Programme. She was a Research Fellow at St. John’s College, Cambridge University, where she also obtained her PhD. She was a Visiting Professor at the Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi and a visiting researcher at the Council for Social Development, New Delhi. She is the author of Communalism, Caste and Hindu Nationalism (2007). Her current research focuses on the democratization of citizenship in India, and India’s first post independence elections.
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"Democratizing Citizenship in India: The Making of the First Election" lecture by Dr. Ornit Shani at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 16th February 2012
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