01371 a2200157 4500 25919 25919 9780199481743 320.954014 BAJ-S Bajpai,Anandita Speaking the nation: the oratorical making of secular, neoliberal India Oxford University Press 2018 xv, 335p. Include Bibliography and Index 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. Political oratory Politics and government Prime ministers Economic development Communication in politics India ddc BK 0 0 0 0 NASSDOC NASSDOC 2019-12-30 OP 653.35 2019-12-20 0 320.954014 BAJ-S 50738 2019-12-30 00:00:00 895.00 2019-12-30 BK