Republican Citizenship in French Colonial Pondicherry, 1870-1914

by Anne Raffin

Republican Citizenship in French Colonial Pondicherry, 1870-1914 revisits and analyses the earlier part of the Third Republic, when France granted citizenship rights to Indians in Pondicherry. This work of historical sociology explores the nature of this colonial citizenship and enables comparisons with British India, especially the Madras Presidency, as well as the rest of the French empire, as a means of demonstrating how unique the practice of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9463723552
• ISBN13: 9789463723558
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Length: 250 Pages