provincialism

Citizenship, Reservations and the Regional Alternative in the All-India Services, ca. 1928–1950

Author(s): 
Oliver Godsmark
Publisher/Sponsor: 
South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Volume 38, 2015 - Issue 2, Taylor and Francis Online
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00856401.2015.1014957

This paper unearths an alternative paradigm through which to consider the discussions and debates between members of the Indian public, government bureaucrats and Congress Party politicians about the rights and interests of Indian citizens both before and immediately after India's Independence in 1947. It argues that much of the recent historical work on citizenship during this period has been preoccupied with issues of nationality and religious community as a result of the fallout from Partition.