Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer
Analyze the issues related to the citizenship in contemporary India. Give suitable illustrations.
- UPSC 2020
- 10 marks
- Politics and Society in India
T. H. Marshall (Citizenship and Social Class, 1950) traced citizenship as civil, then political, then social rights across three centuries. India inverted that sequence, granting full political rights in 1950 to a society still denied the other two. Today's controversies follow from that inversion, and from a legal definition that has steadily narrowed.
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- Legal status: from soil to blood
- Documentary citizenship
- Formal rights without substantive ones
- Statelessness and the missing law
- Conclusion
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