https://dspace.iiti.ac.in:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/3643 2026-05-06T15:11:18Z 2026-05-06T15:11:18Z Upendra, Chidella https://dspace.iiti.ac.in:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/18019 2026-04-28T12:12:52Z 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Revisiting the Imagery of [Political] Violence: a philosophical interpretation Authors: Upendra, Chidella Abstract: Contemporary critical reflections of violence immensely focus on an `ever war-like condition’ that makes the state of exception a permanent possibility. Most popular perspectives of western political philosophy seem to look at a bigger picture; a bird’s eye-view of the world – looking at violence as violence of war and genocides. Every reflection is directed toward war, violence, here and there, and its effects on various human societies. Having a bigger picture is imminent. Besides this big picture we cannot overlook several micro-pictures. The bigger picture will lose its moral and political justification, this paper commits to argue, unless the claim of a permanent emergency locates itself in the manifold normalizations of everyday life that not just distort political objectivity, corrupt human nature, and create intolerant internal civic culture[s]. These instill in the civil society a dangerous indifference to the pain of the socially/politically vulnerable that greatly threatens the latter’s political sense. The single line of argument here is only when the pathologies of everyday lives is grasped only then we can comprehend more deeply the reality of war and/or violence as a permanent condition. © The Author(s).

2026-01-01T00:00:00Z Suraj, Anoop Kumar https://dspace.iiti.ac.in:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/18015 2026-04-28T12:12:52Z 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The electoral language of caste in India: The politics of shared identity Authors: Suraj, Anoop Kumar Abstract: Social identities are not merely descriptive categories but discursive resources mobilised in electoral practices. The caste-based electoral appeals in Indian elections, exemplify how identities are performatively invoked and normalised in the democratic life. This article employs critical discourse analysis of 31 political speeches to investigate the rhetorical strategies and illocutionary force indicating devices through which leaders interpellate voters into caste-based collectivities. The study shows how affective resonance and persuasive tropes are deployed to cultivate electoral belonging and political solidarity. By conceptualising caste-appeals as a mode of identity performance and discursive hegemony, the article illuminates that electoral language both reproduces and legitimises social hierarchies under the guise of democratic inclusion. This analysis foregrounds the nexus of discourse, identity, and power, offering theoretical insights into political communication, the performativity of social categories, and the reproduction of inequality in democratic contexts. © The Author(s) 2026

2026-01-01T00:00:00Z Praveen, Bushra https://dspace.iiti.ac.in:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/17966 2026-04-28T12:12:52Z 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The Climate Change and Agricultural Sector in India: Impact, Adaptation and Mitigation Authors: Praveen, Bushra Abstract: This article primarily explores the effects of climate change (CC) on India’s agricultural sector, employing land suitability analysis (LSA) and fuzzy methods (FM) as key approaches. Addressing this topic is crucial for shaping policies aimed at CC adaptation and mitigation. The research concluded that CC leads to severe harvest failure with major implications for agricultural producers and food security across the globe. Further, it has been found that temperature, precipitation and natural hazards are the main factors affecting primary crop production across different agro-climatic zones throughout India. Moreover, an increase in temperature of 4°C would decline agricultural yield by 25–40. An increase in temperature would deteriorate the agricultural yield by 49% and farm income in India. Utilising environmentally conscious technologies, create climate-resilient dry-land agricultural products to assist farmers in adapting to the consequences of CC. These strategies ought to be created to motivate smallholder farmers in the semi-arid tropics to use climate-smart technological solutions to increase agricultural productivity. © 2026 Indian Economic Association

2026-01-01T00:00:00Z Chattaraj, Dishari https://dspace.iiti.ac.in:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/17971 2026-04-28T12:12:52Z 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Intersectional pedagogies for critical language awareness in multilingual India: a phenomenological inquiry Authors: Chattaraj, Dishari Abstract: This study provides an account of a pedagogical intervention designed to promote Critical Language Awareness among tertiary learners in an English Language Education (ELE) course at an Indian university in a hybrid mode. Rooted at the intersections of Critical Language Pedagogy, postmemory, and digital pedagogies, the pedagogical intervention enables learners to understand the complex interconnections between their language usage, linguistic identities, historical events, and digital medium in a multilingual context. It utilises an interpretative phenomenological approach to document and interpret multilingual participants’ perceptions of their language learning experiences. Eight sub-themes that emerged from the phenomenological inquiry are (1) everyday lives as sites of language politics, (2) inquisitiveness about native language and linguistic identities, (3) navigating digitality and hybrid learning experiences, (4) classroom as a multilingual space, (5) awareness of the complexities of multilingual context, (6) dominant narratives and representational politics, (7) co-curation of knowledge and dismantling academic hegemony and (8) negotiating multiplicity of linguistic identities. The study highlights both the effectiveness of such an intersectional pedagogical intervention and, in the process, argues for the necessity to integrate context-specific complexities of multilingual experiences into ELE courses that are traditionally shaped by distant native-speaker norms. © 2026 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

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