This article attempts to investigate the three strands of citizenship, nationalism and education and their interconnectedness in India after independence. It seeks to address questions like how has the post-colonial state in India visualized its models of citizenship through its education policies and programmes and what has become of their fate? In what ways the changing nature of public versus private education has shaped contested models of citizenship? What challenges are thrown at the models of citizenship that the Indian state has tried to posit through education? It is argued that the journey of citizenship in post-independent India is that of contradictory pulls around key strands of ethno-cultural nationalism and civic nationalism and around an economically productive nation versus an economic consumer nation. The article will look at some of the key policy shifts and operational models and attempt to locate the dynamic behind those shifts.

本文试图调查独立后印度的公民、民族主义和教育这三个方面及其相互联系。它试图解决诸如印度的后殖民国家如何通过其教育政策和计划将其公民模式形象化以及他们的命运如何？公立教育与私立教育的不断变化的性质以何种方式塑造了有争议的公民模式？印度政府试图通过教育建立的公民模式面临哪些挑战？有人认为，在独立后的印度，公民身份的旅程是围绕民族文化民族主义和公民民族主义的关键部分以及经济生产国与经济消费国之间的矛盾拉动。