1st Edition
Political Campaigning in Digital India
Introduction—Political campaigning in India: changing contexts of political communication
Anil M. Varughese and Holli A. Semetko
1. Political campaigning and party strategies: the importance of rallies in the northern states
Anup Kumar
2. Political campaigning in West Bengal: violence, professionalisation, and communalisation
Suman Nath and Subhasish Ray
3. Faith revival and issue framing in Kerala’s 2019 campaign
Anil M. Varughese
4. Campaigning and party strategies in Assam
Pahi Saikia and Rajeev Bhattacharyya
5. Digital campaigning in Karnataka
Kiran Arabaghatta Basavaraj
6. Maximum campaigning in Andhra Pradesh: from padayatra to Facebook and YouTube
Anil M. Varughese, Pahi Saikia and Tanya Reddy Sattineni
7. Political hazard: misinformation in the 2019 Indian general election campaign
Syeda Zainab Akbar, Anmol Panda and Joyojeet Pal
8. Political communication and campaigning in India: opportunities for future research
Holli A. Semetko
Biography
Anil M. Varughese is Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. His research interests are in comparative politics of South Asia and global social policy.
Holli A. Semetko is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Media and International Affairs and Professor of Political Science at Emory University in the U.S. and was a Fulbright Nehru Scholar at IIT-Bombay, India.
