IJAR, International Journal of Advanced Research, strives for the involvement of academic community by initiating dialogues and interactions. Instituted in 2010, IJAR has taken various issues of interdisciplinary research value into its discursive platform. It also aims to accentuate the importance of research in academia by providing a forum for the researchers, academicians and students to impart and share knowledge from diverse domains. It discourses wide-ranging topics from socio- cultural realms that have both national and international significance.

The current volume has given special focus to the topics concerning citizenship, nationality and representative democracy that are burning issues in the socio political scenario of our country. The multi-dimensional representations and re-presentations of our country and its people need research inquiry and the same have to be recorded since the situations are compelling one to register his/her academic and political engagement. Nation, being a discourse, goes beyond law and places. The articles in this volume too go beyond the confined territories of theory critiquing the spatialities of citizenship, reflecting and debating the legal bonds between the state and individual. The articles, published here primarily raise questions about the heart core of nation and nationality especially in the distressed national scenario. The shift in the paradigms of human and state interventions is observed to see the shapes of nationality and democracy today.
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