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Speaking the Nation: The Oratorical Making of Secular, Neoliberal India

Speaking the Nation: The Oratorical Making of Secular, Neoliberal India

Bajpai, Anandita

Hardcover

General Political ScienceIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 0199481741
ISBN13: 9780199481743
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jan 22 2019
Pages: 356
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
Untangling the logical, lexical, and semantic patterns of the multiple official speeches of Indian prime ministers, Speaking the Nation gauges how the Indian state has been projected by different governments in different times, in the face of challenges from internal and external actors that put pressure on its leaders to safeguard their status as legitimate elites in power. It analyses how Indian nationhood is consistently reshaped and reaffirmed by invoking its secular ethos and practice, as well as the experience of market liberalization. The book calls for serious engagement with political oratory in India. A close reading of speeches since 1991--from Narasimha Rao to Narendra Modi--captured how, through these crosscutting topics, the prominent 'authors of the nation' and the 'vanguards of the state', speak India into being.

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