“Incipientes sociedades”1 Inclusión y exclusión del indígena en la vida republicana, a partir de las constituciones políticas y leyes decimonónicas colombianas (1810-1890)

Abstract

The creation of a Nation-State in the territory of the Viceroyalty of the Nuevo Reino de Granada after its independence from the Hispanic Monarchy was characterized by several problems of political, social and cultural inclusion and exclusion of its inhabitants who, due to 300 years of colonial relation, lived in a hierarchical and vertical society. Because of this, the indigenous communities were perceived as an otherness that should be equated to the category of citizengradually removing what differentiated them, in an either positive or negative way from the rest of the country. Around the latter, this paper analyzes how the legislature and the Colombian national constitutionalism were either inclusive or exclusive with the indigenous population throughout century XIX.