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Ep 152: The Citizenship Battles

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Importance of Citizenship in India

The Hindu Toa project borrows directly from 19th century European notions of what should be a nation state. In Indian context the Hindus right and others as long as they are able to accept that culturally they are Hindu you know they can do what they want. The British Empire in which it conferred subject to the subject but withheld citizenship would yet challenge every one of us throughout this challenge he says.

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