India’s war on COVID-19: how the government is turning marginalised citizens into suspected enemies and criminals

Das, Shreshtha (2020) India’s war on COVID-19: how the government is turning marginalised citizens into suspected enemies and criminals. South Asia @ LSE (15 May 2020). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

In many of Narendra Modi’s speeches on tackling the spread of COVID-19, the Indian Prime Minister has employed a set of war-time metaphors to direct the nation’s response. Here Shreshtha Das (Independent Researcher, New Delhi) argues how this linguistic approach has turned citizens from some of the country’s marginalised groups into suspected enemies and criminals, against whom the wrath of the state and the society has been unleashed.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/
Additional Information:	© 2020 The Author
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	J Political Science > JQ Political institutions Asia R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
Date Deposited:	16 Jun 2020 13:15
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 10:33
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/104930

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