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August 16, 2026Asian Ethnicity

Purity as politics: crafting discipline in the puritan public sphere of Assam and its institutional sedimentation

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Qualitative discourse analysis reveals how linguo-cultural purity disciplines civic identity in academic institutions, suggesting a shift from inclusive to moralized public spheres.

Key Points

  • Theorize the concept of a puritan public sphere to explain how linguo-cultural purity and moral discipline shape civic legitimacy in Assamese subnationalism.
  • Conducted a qualitative discourse analysis of Cottonian university magazines published between 1978 and 1985.
  • Conducted qualitative interviews with marginalized students to investigate the institutional embedding of cultural norms.
  • Demonstrates that linguo-cultural purity acts as a prerequisite for civic legitimacy, displacing classical dialogic and inclusive public sphere models.
  • Distinguishes puritanism from xenophobia by showing that puritan systems discipline and assimilate cultural difference through symbolic violence rather than solely expelling it.

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Niloy Pratim Kashyap (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a817980f2fb91fc834acab2https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2026.2717157
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