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
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…