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
In a paradoxical turn of events, the brutal invasion of the democratic state of Ukraine by Russia has, despite its many international condemnations, fostered a certain convergence of views in India between the government, opposition, and various sections of the intelligentsia.
This guest lecture is part of Dr. Baris Ari’s class Social “Research Methods: Ethnography”, School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication, University of East Anglia. It discusses ethnographic inquiry in the context of a deepening divide between “positivist” and “interpretivist” research traditions.
This is the replication file of the draft manuscript submitted to the American Political Science Review. It is titled ‘Aping the People’: Populist Identification as Mimesis in Narendra Modi’s Speeches. The SMUR version of the article is found above.
The management of the coronavirus spread is not only a global rupture, it also signals the consolidation of the personalistic and intimate rapport between Modi and the people, which routinizes direct populist appeals through disfiguring democratic institutions.
Scripts to batch process textual data for analysis in R, Python, TXM and IRaMuTeQ. The repo contains tools to extract text – and its metadata – from digital sources (PDFs, HTML, SRT), clean it (layout and OCR corrections) and format it in a CSV+TXT format for analysis.
Les 17emes elections generales de la Lok Sabha, la chambre basse du Parlement indien, se sont deroulees du 11 avril au 19 mai 2019 et ont abouti a un triomphe du parti nationaliste hindou…
The band Dastaa invites you to explore the harmonious continuum between student political participation and the classical music repertoire of Bihar. Songs include Hum dekhenge, written by Faiz Ahmed Faiz [1/3], Aise dastoor…
The Memories of Change Exhibition was inaugurated on 6th November 2019. Student activists, researchers, politics enthusiasts and several others joined us for an evening of stimulating conversations, diving deep into the legacies…
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 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…
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…
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Quick overview of the World bank data on Higher Education in South Asia (2018).