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Mass Politics and 'Populism' in the World of Indian Languages


Mass Politics and ‘Populism’ in the World of Indian Languages
By Aditya Nigam. Dated: 12/22/2020 12:11:05 AM
The label ‘populism’ has acquired unprecedented currency lately and is used to indiscriminately describe such a wide range of political figures and political tendencies that it seems to have lost all conceptual meaning. In the best of times, it was always a slippery concept that has been linked to democracy at one end and fascism at the other. On the one hand, it is seen as the democratic ‘excess’ that escapes the attempt of liberal-representative institutions to rein it in; on the other, it is seen as being of a piece with the fascist resort to antipolitical demagoguery and the rhetoric of the (national) ‘underdog’ oppressed by an elite (usually with international links). ....

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