Focusing the Kaleidoscope: Narratives of Indian Leadership in Political Socialisation and Mobilisation

• JANMIT SINGH

  Mata Sahib Kaur Girls College, Gehal (Barnala)

The study is an attempt to comprehend and conceptualise the role of leadership in the genesis, operation, and decay of political narratives in India after independence. It is argued that leaders of different political parties utilised political narratives as tools of political socialisation and mobilisation. Their power struggle not only metamorphosed political discourse but also changed the constitutional narrative in statement and substance. There is a shift from the hegemony of secular narrative to the supremacy of right-wing nationalist narrative in Indian politics. However, India’s regional diversity, pluralistic social fabric, and constitutional checks and balances have collectively sustained a deeply multinarrative political landscape, which is shaped by a spectrum of ideological positions, regional distinctiveness, and constitutional commitments.

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