The Muslim’s Poetic Dissent of Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 and Hindu’s Sloganic Resentment: A Critical Discourse Analysis

Abstract

The passage of Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) of India enacted in December 2019 basically initiated the traditional ethnic discursive tug-of-war between the Muslims and the Hindus, residing in the country. This study in hand conducted a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of poems and slogans raised during the movement against CAA. Van Dijk’s Ideological Square was used to examine this two-fold discourse. First, the study examined poetic and sloganic discourse which was used by the Muslims to shape dissent against the CAA. Secondly, it examined the reverse indoctrination of the Hindus’ resentment not only shown by the slogans but also by heinous acts and atrocities committed against the Muslims in India. The poems and slogans were analyzed manually, then the sentiments of same poems and slogans were calculated by using NVivo software to apply Van Dijk’s Ideological Sqaure. The study reached the conclusion that sloganic resentments of the Hindus were mostly the reverse of the Muslim’s discourse accompanied by inhuman actions. The study found that the discourse of Hindus was face-to-face with the Muslim’s discourse.