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Nptel Iitg: Lecture - 26
Nptel Iitg: Lecture - 26
Lecture – 26
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Citizenship – II: T. H. Marshall and liberalPTE
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conceptions of citizenship as legal and equal member
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According to Marshall, citizenship promotes equality of status of each individual
and it ultimately combats the disruptive inequalities produced by the market
economy. A common citizenship bond creates a new national identity and
consciousness.
His conception of citizenship is premised upon the idea of making any
hierarchical or ascriptive inequalities be it based on caste,
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ethnicity irrelevant in the eyes of state. In otherLwords,
citizens appear as same and equal subjected P TE to uniform set of rules and
procedures without any discrimination on N the basis of race, caste, gender, religion
or language.
1. Dryzek, John S, Bonnie Honig and Anne Phillips (eds.) (2006). The Oxford
Handbook of Political Theory, New York: Oxford University Press.
2. Roy, Anupama (2008), ‘Citizenship’ in Rajeev Bhargava and Ashok Acharya (eds.),
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Political Theory: An Introduction. Delhi: Pearson Longman.
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Hoffman, John and Paul Graham (eds.) (2015). Introduction to Political Theory,
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New York: Routledge.
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Gauba, O. P. (2016), An introduction to Political Theory, Mayur Paperbacks.
5. Ramaswamy, Sushila (2010), Political Theory: Ideas and Concepts, PHI Learning.
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