Political Discourse and the Planned City: Nehru’s Projection and Appropriation of Chandigarh, the Capital of Punjab

Ganeshwari Singh, Simrit Kahlon and Vishwa Bandhu Singh Chandel

Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2019, vol. 109, issue 4, 1226-1239

Abstract: This article aims to understand how the political discourse shaped and underwrote the creation of the planned city of Chandigarh. This has been achieved by carrying out critical discourse analysis of speeches and writings of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and also by relating them to the wider discourses of nationalism, planning, and modernism that were prevalent at the time of the building of the city. The focus is on how the city was conceived by Nehru and how through a selective and partial projection of its characteristics he created an image of the new city that was an embodiment of the ideals and goals of the newly independent State of India. Using such mechanisms, he appropriated a provincial capital and constructed it as a symbol of the entire nation.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2018.1507816

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