Language as Identity in Colonial India
Policies and Politics
(Sprache: Englisch)
This book is a systematic narrative, tracking the colonial language policies and acts responsible for the creation of a sense of "self-identity" and culminating in the evolution of nationalistic fervor in colonial India. British policy on language for...
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This book is a systematic narrative, tracking the colonial language policies and acts responsible for the creation of a sense of "self-identity" and culminating in the evolution of nationalistic fervor in colonial India. British policy on language for administrative use and as a weapon to rule led to the parallel development of Indian vernaculars: poets, novelists, writers and journalists produced great and fascinating work that conditioned and directed India's path to independence. The book presents a theoretical proposition arguing that language as identity is a colonial construct in India, and demonstrates this by tracing the events, policies and changes that led to the development and churning up of Indian national sentiments and attitudes. It is a testimony of India's linguistic journey from a British colony to a modern state. Demonstrating that language as basis of identity was a colonial construct in modern India, the book asserts that any in-depth understanding of identity and politics in contemporary India remains incomplete without looking at colonial policies on language and education, from which the multiple discourses on "self" and belonging in modern India emanated. Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Language as Identity in Colonial India “
Chapter 1 Theoretical developments-linking language to identity.- Chapter 2 Language situation in colonial India: Story of Bengal.- Chapter 3 Making identity out of language: Beyond Bengal.- Chapter 4 Building identity: Information, intellect and inspiration.- Chapter 5 Language and construction of plural selves.- Chapter 6 Language conundrum.
Autoren-Porträt von Papia Sengupta
Dr. Papia Sengupta, Assistant Professor, Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences II, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Papia Sengupta
- 2019, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018, XXI, 120 Seiten, Maße: 14,9 x 21,2 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Springer, Berlin
- ISBN-10: 9811349592
- ISBN-13: 9789811349591
Sprache:
Englisch
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