Interview with Batti Lal
Batti Lal is a former student activist at Jawaharlal Nehru University. He shares his experience of fighting for Dalit rights as a student activist. This material is exhibited as part of the Memories of Change exhibition.
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Interview with Kanhaiya Kumar
Kanhaiya Kumar is a former president of the JNUSU. He came to national spotlight due to the Azadi slogans shouted at JNU in 2016. This material is exhibited as part of the Memories of Change exhibition.
The Untranslated Campaign Speeches of Narendra Modi
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…
{R} Dictionary-based Approach to Populist-style: Sketching Preliminary Figures
These are preparatory sketches prior to the making of the figures of the draft article “Aping the People”: A Text Analysis of Populist Mimesis in Narendra Modi Speeches. A copy of the final figures are available on the…
{R} Dictionary-based Approach to Populist Style: Evidence from the DIPMS Database
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…
{Py} Extracting OCR text for Metadata Generation: The Example of PaRChA
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.
{R/Stata} Time Effects on Politicisation: The Case of JNU
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…
{Py} Creating a Multi-level Dictionary for Text Analysis in R
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.
Dreamers: How Young Indians are Changing the World
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…
Diversity, Democracy, and Dissent
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…
From One Participant Cohort to Another
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…
Reading PM Modi, Through his Speeches
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…
Historicising Student Activism and their Pamphleteer Discourses
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…
IAIP: Intermediary Actors of Indian Politics
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…
Waiting for the Liberal Indian Enfant Terrible
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…