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SUMMARY:Rising power\, precarious citizens:  Mobility and democracy in Ind
 ia after 1989 - Indrajit Roy (QEH\, Oxford)
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DESCRIPTION:On March 25\, 2020\, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi im
 posed the world’s largest lockdown in a bid to stem the threat of COVID 
 19. The stringent lockdown triggered a mass exodus from cities across Indi
 a\, with panic-stricken people desperately trying to leave for their homes
  in villages\, walking over hundreds if not thousands of kilometres. Who w
 ere these men\, women and children streaming out of India’s cities? Why 
 did they feel compelled to leave the economic engines of among the world
 ’s fastest growing economies and return to their rural homes? Why had th
 ey flocked to its cities and towns in the first place? The exodus pointed 
 attention to the meanings of citizenship for almost 100 million internal m
 igrants who live in the world’s largest democracy and one of its fastest
  growing economies\, in a country that styles itself and is hailed interna
 tionally as a Rising Power.\n\nThis paper\, and the broader book project\,
  reflects on the precarities of citizenship in India after 1989. The resea
 rch on which the paper is based draws on primary research conducted for ne
 arly a decade among migrant workers in their north Bihar villages and the 
 cities and towns across India where they live and labour. Its core argumen
 t is this: India and Indians have witnessed important improvements since 1
 990\, but those transitions are precarious\, tenuous\, and uncertain. The 
 argument offered in the paper thus departs from perspectives that either s
 ing paeans of India’s ‘Rising Power’ status on the one hand or lamen
 t its stagnation and decline on the other. It urges you to appreciate the 
 very substantive ways in which lives of India’s poorest people improved 
 after 1990 not so much due to the much-vaunted policies to liberalise the 
 economy but the more contentious process of democratic deepening wrought b
 y politicians maligned as “low caste\, “corrupt” and “uncouth”. 
 However\, these improvements were far from sustained as dialectical proces
 ses of impoverishment and dispossession were not uncommon. The paper sketc
 hes three “portraits of mobility” to highlight the precariousness of c
 itizenship in India after 1989.  \n\nSpeakers:\nIndrajit Roy (QEH\, Oxford
 )
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