Pritha Dutta1 & Rajdeep Roy2
1Ph.D Scholar, Amity University, School of Communication, Uttar Pradesh prithachakraborty712@gmail.com, ORCID: 0000-0002-3994-2084
2Asst. Professor Amity University, rroy@amity.edu, ORCID: 0000-0001-5316-308X
Volume 11, Number 2, July-September, 2019 I Full Text PDF
DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v11n2.09
First published September 30, 2019
Abstract
The study examines the role of the press as a catalyst in the dominant portrayal of Subhas Bose as the political actor who has been arguably denied his rightful place in the annals of Indian history. The paper investigates the time plane in discourse analysis, the discursive strategies of social actors, and the extra- and supra-textual effects of mediated discourse (Carvalho, 2008) to advocate that press content on Bose is “shaped, pounded, constrained and encouraged by a multitude of forces” (Shoemaker, Reese, 1996). The paper critiques the discourse of The Statesman and Times of India in the light of the socio-political context and the published articles in 2015. This year was instrumental in marking a historical announcement that fundamentally influenced a seventy-year-long dialogue. The paper analyses the re-aligning of the nation’s narrative to create a public consensus incidental to the particular political dispensation of the day. It examines the positioning of Bose as an alternative to the dominant narrative of the national movement with Gandhi and Nehru as central protagonists.
Keywords: Bose, Press, Politics, Critical Discourse Analysis, The Statesman, Times of India
