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
Here can be found the R markdown script of the article in preparation “Aping the People”: A Text Analysis of Populist Mimesis in Narendra Modi Speeches. Here you can run the results of the text analysis…
This Markdown document summarises the data manipulation necessary to format, name, tag and upload OCRed material of the Pamphlet Repository for Changing Activism (PaRChA) and its metadata.
This Markdown document was submitted as replication file for the article From one participant cohort to another: Surveying inter-generational political incubation in an Indian University. A copy is available on the SAtextometry…
The python script generates the multilevel dictionary (1:5 levels) in both YML and LIWC formats from a CSV file. An example of required CSV formatting can be found below the code section.
This is the most desperate generation of Indians since Independence’ (24). Set at the crossroads of journalism and ethnographic studies, Snigdha Poonam’s first book is a harrowing account of aspirational youth grappling with their…
Qualitative and quantitative evidence collected over the last four years (2014–18) at the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus reaffirms the crucial contribution of the institution’s diverse and democratic base to Indian politics. The authors suggest…
Several recent studies propose that political choices of Indian youth can hardly be distinguished from those of their parents in many respects. Contrary to this well-established understanding, this article shows that when set apart…
In his Independence Day speeches, Narendra Modi has repeatedly used the words ‘sister’, ‘brother’ and ‘team’. The Prime Minister’s rhetorical technique is inherent in populism, a version of politics that crystallises when a leader…
Recovering those writings on the wall: this paper aims at providing new insights on youth Indian activism through presenting preliminary results of a textual study on campus politics. Through a lexicographic analysis of a…
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…
This project intends to examine the pivotal role of political mediators in the conduct of Indian democracy. By organizing seven research-related events on often unaccounted political intermediaries in contemporary India…
The DATA project intends to facilitate computer-assisted textual analysis of political discourses in India. It aims at developing a range of semi-automated management tools in Python/R. They are designed at structuring large quantities of text…
In these times of cultural and ideological tensions across the world, the coexistence between followers of different faiths is a burning issue. South Asia is no exception to this global trend: over the past decades…
A decade after its first round, the results of a survey on Indian youth attitudes, conducted jointly by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS), prompted…