eprintid: 10189777 rev_number: 9 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/18/97/77 datestamp: 2024-03-25 15:28:46 lastmod: 2024-03-25 15:32:49 status_changed: 2024-03-25 15:28:46 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Kadiwal, Laila creators_name: Jain, Manish creators_name: Nayanpally, Sadashiv creators_name: Andrabi, Ruhail creators_name: Sharma, Parikshit creators_name: Khandelwal, Chaitnya creators_name: Arif, Warda title: Contesting authoritarianism, redefining democracy: Youth and citizenship in contemporary India ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B16 divisions: B14 divisions: J80 keywords: citizenship in India, anti-CAA protests, religious identity, youth movement, Muslim, public pedagogy note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. abstract: This article attempts to understand how youth in contemporary India perceives, experiences and engages with the contestations around the ideas of citizenship and nation against the backdrop of the new citizenship policies. In December 2019, the majoritarian Hindu nationalist government in India enacted a Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) that purported to give citizenship to persecuted religious minorities from India’s neighbouring countries. But the Act crucially did not include Muslims in the list of oppressed minorities and created widespread anxieties about the possible loss of citizenship through the CAA and the National Register of Citizens. Millions of young people across Indian university campuses and neighbourhoods took to the streets to protest against the legislation. Drawing on the narratives of the young people who participated in these protests, this article highlights the youth’s conceptions of and negotiations with their identity and the use of different modes of resistance deployed in the anti-CAA movement. The article concludes by laying out the implications of these youth protests as a mode of ‘public pedagogy’ for citizenship education as an alternative to the statist models of citizenship education. date: 2022-09-01 date_type: published publisher: Intellect official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ctl_00097_1 oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1993824 doi: 10.1386/ctl_00097_1 lyricists_name: Kadiwal, Laila lyricists_id: LKADI60 actors_name: Mustafa, Adelat actors_id: AMUST21 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Citizenship Teaching and Learning volume: 17 number: 3 pagerange: 341-362 issn: 1751-1917 citation: Kadiwal, Laila; Jain, Manish; Nayanpally, Sadashiv; Andrabi, Ruhail; Sharma, Parikshit; Khandelwal, Chaitnya; Arif, Warda; (2022) Contesting authoritarianism, redefining democracy: Youth and citizenship in contemporary India. Citizenship Teaching and Learning , 17 (3) pp. 341-362. 10.1386/ctl_00097_1 <https://doi.org/10.1386/ctl_00097_1>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10189777/1/Kadiwal_Contesting%20Authoritarianism-redefining%20democracy-India.pdf