Political Communication in Contemporary India : Locating Democracy and Governance (Paperback)

1. Political Communication in Contemporary India: An Introduction Part I: Theoretical Approaches to the Study of Political Communication 2.Governance in Post-Liberalisation India: The Grey Zone of Political Communication 3. Democracy, Public Sphere and Participation in India: A Philosophical Enquiry Through the Theory of Communicative Action of Habermas Part II: Political Communication During Elections 4. Uttar Pradesh: Political Communication Strategies of Mayawati and Akhilesh 5. Changing Dynamics of Political Electioneering in India: Use of New Social Media in Karnataka Assembly Elections 2018 Part III: Cultural and Linguistic Dimension of Political Communication in Indian Democracy 6. Rhetoric in Democracy: Inventing and ReInventing Language for Identity Politics 7. Personalisation of Politics: Shifting Paradigm of Democracy in Digital Age 8. Theorizing Communication of Electoral Slogans in Indian General Election- A Case Study Part IV: Federal and Administrative Dimension of Political Communication 9. Between ‘National’ and ‘Federal’ Communication: Locating the Issue of Bangladeshi Migrant in West Bengal since 2014  10. Locating the ‘Citizen’ in Administrative Communication in India: A Case Study of ‘Mission Nirmal Bangla’  11. Panchayat Elections and Political Communication: A Study from Gram Panchayats of Telangana State Part V: Diversity in Political Communication in Contemporary India 12. Gleaning Political Communication through ‘Notices’ in North East India  13. Whose Communication is it Anyway?: Analysing Socio-Political Debates in Indian Tele-media 14. Negotiating the Political in the Community Radio Landscape in India: A Brief Sketch 15.  Democratising Political Communication for Governance in the New Normal Times. Index