I showcase here textual and visual gems of a geek mixed methods ethnography in political science and sociology, focusing mainly on educated youth, representation and political becoming in contemporary India. The repository gravitates around a monograph in preparation on campus activism and Indian democracy, and introduces the curated material of an archival exhibition on student politics. I have a growing interest in text analysis and the study of populist speeches. Content is open access.
§︎ Research foci
• Youth activism as political self-fashioning
• Political archives and the pamphleteers
• Populist style as political representation
• Political intermediaries, elites and subalterns
• Ethnography of political ambition in India
• Text analysis, speeches and lifeworlds
§︎ Contents
• Publications: articles · preprints · op-eds
• Collaborations: ceri · iiit-d · icas-mp
• Datasets: parcha · dips
• Curation: memories of change
• Syllabi: sciences po · king's · cemis
• Code: r · python
• Photography: fieldword photos
• E-library: nonfiction
This presentation at the TCPD centre of Ashoka University aims at mapping Indian Prime Ministers’s speeches and their affinities with populism, by comparing them to seemingly non-political actors: religious gurus and policy planners.
You can find here a range of datasets of textual rendering of speeches, writings and pamphlets of Indian politicians, student activists, historical figures, administrators and religious gurus involved in the making of contemporary India.
This interdisciplinary project explores the effects of political language on democracy when it transitions to authoritarianism. By relying on digital social sciences and ethnographic evidence, I will retrace the lineages and impacts of populist, authoritarian and communal rhetoric in the world’s largest democracy: India.
The initiative is committed to setting up a freely accessible platform for referencing material on different protest movements in the country. This digital library offers full searchable content to scholars, concerned individuals and activists.
Twitter fall of political debates involving students in university campuses. This is a recording of the retweets of @compulsiveparchawala, a bot that tracks Indian student leaders on the platform. This material is exhibited…
Most speeches of Narendra Modi are found on the Narendra Modi website, on the Press Information Bureau and on the PM India website. However, some of the campaign speeches, mostly in Hindi and Gujarati…
Below are listed the metadata of various speeches of Indian Prime Ministers since independence. The DIPMS archive is being updated regularly to integrate new material. Text renditions of the speeches are available upon request.
Here are listed the metadata of tweets, mostly revolving around the theme of Indian student politics. Each tab displays tweets from one hashtag or one twitter handle. The IPT archive is being updated occasionally…