Becoming Imperial Citizens: Indians in the Late-Victorian Empire

by Sukanya Banerjee

In this remarkable account of imperial citizenship, Sukanya Banerjee investigates the ways that Indians formulated notions of citizenship in the British Empire from the late nineteenth century through the early twentieth. Tracing the affective, thematic, and imaginative tropes that underwrote Indian claims to formal equality prior to decolonization, she emphasizes the extralegal life of citizenship: the modes of self-representation it generates even...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822346087
• ISBN13: 9780822346081
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.1"