(In)credible India? : a critical analysis of India’s nation branding

RAMAMURTHY, Anandi and EDWARDS, Lee (2017). (In)credible India? : a critical analysis of India’s nation branding. Communication Culture and Critique, 10 (2), 322-343.

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Abstract

We offer a political-economic, postcolonial interrogation of nation branding based on the Incredible India campaign. We show how the violence inherent in nation branding promotes internal hegemonies and external market interests at the expense of ideas of belonging and community. In Incredible India, colonial identities are reinscribed, peripheralising India in line with the demands of global markets and privileging Western desires and imagination. Internal political hegemonies promoting India as a Hindu nation are also reflected in the campaign, marginalising minority groups. However, the attempt to construct a unitary nation simultaneously reveals the presence of the ‘other’, contesting the boundaries of the narrative. The analysis confirms nation branding as a fundamentally political process, implicated in the production and perpetuation of inequalities. Keywords: nation branding; India; postcolonial criticism; Hindutva; neoliberalism; tourism and media. Keywords: nation branding; India; postcolonial criticism; Hindutva; neoliberalism; tourism and media

Item Type: Article
Research Institute, Centre or Group - Does NOT include content added after October 2018: Cultural Communication and Computing Research Institute > Communication and Computing Research Centre
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1111/cccr.12152
Page Range: 322-343
Depositing User: Anandi Ramamurthy
Date Deposited: 06 Jun 2016 10:45
Last Modified: 18 Mar 2021 05:13
URI: https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/12353

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