Nation And Region In Grierson S Linguistic Survey Of India

Author : Javed Majeed
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 316 pages
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Release : 2018-10-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429799341

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Nation and Region in Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India by Javed Majeed Pdf

George Abraham Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India is one of the most complete sources on South Asian languages. This book is the first detailed examination of the Survey. It shows how the Survey collaborated with Indian activists to consolidate the regional languages in India. By focusing on India as a linguistic region, it was at odds with the colonial state’s conceptualisation of the subcontinent, in which religious and caste differences were key to its understanding of Indian society. A number of the Survey’s narratives are detachable from its rigorous linguistic imperatives, and together with aspects of Grierson’s other texts, these contributed to the way in which Indian nationalists appropriated and reshaped languages, making them religiously charged ideological symbols of particular versions of the subcontinent. Thus, the Survey played an important role in the emergence of religious nationalism and language conflict in the subcontinent in the 20th century. This volume, like its companion volume Colonialism and Knowledge in Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India, will be a great resource for scholars and researchers of linguistics, language and literature, history, political studies, cultural studies and South Asian studies.

Author : JAVED. MAJEED
Publisher : Routledge Chapman & Hall
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367733404

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Nation and Region in Grierson's Linguistic Survey of India by JAVED. MAJEED Pdf

George Abraham Grierson's Linguistic Survey of India is one of the most complete sources on South Asian languages. This book is the first detailed examination of the Survey. It shows how the Survey collaborated with Indian activists to consolidate the regional languages in India. By focusing on India as a linguistic region, it was at odds with the colonial state's conceptualisation of the subcontinent, in which religious and caste differences were key to its understanding of Indian society. A number of the Survey's narratives are detachable from its rigorous linguistic imperatives, and together with aspects of Grierson's other texts, these contributed to the way in which Indian nationalists appropriated and reshaped languages, making them religiously charged ideological symbols of particular versions of the subcontinent. Thus, the Survey played an important role in the emergence of religious nationalism and language conflict in the subcontinent in the 20th century. This volume, like its companion volume Colonialism and Knowledge in Grierson's Linguistic Survey of India, will be a great resource for scholars and researchers of linguistics, language and literature, history, political studies, cultural studies and South Asian studies.

Author : Javed Majeed
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429799372

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Colonialism and Knowledge in Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India by Javed Majeed Pdf

This book is the first detailed examination of George Abraham Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India, one of the most complete sources on South Asian languages. It shows that the Survey was characterised by a composite and collaborative mode of producing knowledge, which undermines any clear distinctions between European orientalists and colonised Indians in British India. Its authority lay more in its stress on the provisional nature of its findings, an emphasis on the approximate nature of its results, and a strong sense of its own shortcomings and inadequacies, rather than in any expression of mastery over India’s languages. The book argues that the Survey brings to light a different kind of colonial knowledge, whose relationship to power was much more ambiguous than has hitherto been assumed for colonial projects in modern India. It also highlights the contribution of Indians to the creation of colonial knowledge about South Asia as a linguistic region. Indians were important collaborators and participants in the Survey, and they helped to create the monumental knowledge of India as a linguistic region which is embodied in the Survey. This volume, like its companion volume Nation and Region in Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India, will be a great resource for scholars and researchers of linguistics, language and literature, history, political studies, cultural studies and South Asian studies.

Author : Siddheshwar Varma
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : India
ISBN : UOM:39015066311500

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G. A. Grierson's Linguistic Survey of India by Siddheshwar Varma Pdf

Author : Linguistic Survey of India
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : India
ISBN : WISC:89119591410

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Linguistic Survey of India by Linguistic Survey of India Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : India
ISBN : OCLC:1181369792

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Linguistic Survey of India by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rita Kothari
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199095322

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A Multilingual Nation by Rita Kothari Pdf

How does India live through the oddity of being both a nation and multilingual? Is multilingualism in India to be understood as a neatly laid set of discrete languages or a criss-crossing of languages that runs through every source language and text? The questions take us to reviewing what is meant by language, multilingualism, and translation. Challenging these institutions, A Multilingual Nation illustrates how the received notions of translation discipline do not apply to India. It provocatively argues that translation is not a ‘solution’ to the allegedly chaotic situation of many languages, rather it is its inherent and inalienable part. An unusual and unorthodox collection of essays by leading thinkers and writers, new and young researchers, it establishes the all-pervasive nature of translation in every sphere in India and reverses the assumptions of the steady nature of language, its definition, and the peculiar fragility that is revealed in the process of translation.

Author : JAVED. MAJEED
Publisher : Routledge Chapman & Hall
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367733439

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Colonialism and Knowledge in Grierson's Linguistic Survey of India by JAVED. MAJEED Pdf

This book is the first detailed examination of George Abraham Grierson's Linguistic Survey of India, one of the most complete sources on South Asian languages. It shows that the Survey was characterised by a composite and collaborative mode of producing knowledge, which undermines any clear distinctions between European orientalists and colonised Indians in British India. Its authority lay more in its stress on the provisional nature of its findings, an emphasis on the approximate nature of its results, and a strong sense of its own shortcomings and inadequacies, rather than in any expression of mastery over India's languages. The book argues that the Survey brings to light a different kind of colonial knowledge, whose relationship to power was much more ambiguous than has hitherto been assumed for colonial projects in modern India. It also highlights the contribution of Indians to the creation of colonial knowledge about South Asia as a linguistic region. Indians were important collaborators and participants in the Survey, and they helped to create the monumental knowledge of India as a linguistic region which is embodied in the Survey. This volume, like its companion volume Nation and Region in Grierson's Linguistic Survey of India, will be a great resource for scholars and researchers of linguistics, language and literature, history, political studies, cultural studies and South Asian studies.

Author : Pritipuspa Mishra
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108425735

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Language and the Making of Modern India by Pritipuspa Mishra Pdf

Explores the ways linguistic nationalism has enabled and deepened the reach of All-India nationalism. This title is also available as Open Access.

Author : G. A. Grierson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1849026173

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Linguistic Survey of India Vol V by G. A. Grierson Pdf

Author : George Abraham Grierson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Bangladesh
ISBN : OCLC:316512043

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Linguistic Survey of India by George Abraham Grierson Pdf

Author : Nicola McLelland,Hui Zhao
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781800411579

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Language Standardization and Language Variation in Multilingual Contexts by Nicola McLelland,Hui Zhao Pdf

This important contribution to the sociolinguistics of Asian languages breaks new ground in the study of language standards and standardization in two key ways: in its focus on Asia, with particular attention paid to China and its neighbours, and in the attention paid to multilingual contexts. The chapters address various kinds of (sometimes hidden) multilingualism and examine the interactions between multilingualism and language standardization, offering a corrective to earlier work on standardization, which has tended to assume a monolingual nation state and monolingual individuals. Taken together, the chapters in this book thus add to our understanding of the ways in which multilingualism is implicated in language standardization, as well as the impact of language standards on multilingualism. The introduction, Chapter 6 and Chapter 8 are free to download as open access publications. You can access them here: Introduction: https://zenodo.org/record/5749388#.YaiwuNDP3cs Chapter 6: https://zenodo.org/record/5749522#.Yaiw-9DP3cs Chapter 8: https://zenodo.org/record/5749586#.Yai0RNDP3cs

Author : George Abraham Grierson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:257498310

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Linguistic Survey of India by George Abraham Grierson Pdf

Author : Nishat Zaidi,Hans Harder
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000930429

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Language Ideologies and the Vernacular in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia by Nishat Zaidi,Hans Harder Pdf

This volume critically engages with recent formulations and debates regarding the status of the regional languages of the Indian subcontinent vis-à-vis English. It explores how language ideologies of the “vernacular” are positioned in relation to the language ideologies of English in South Asia. The book probes into how we might move beyond the English-vernacular binary in India, explores what happened to “bhasha literatures” during the colonial and post-colonial periods and how to position those literatures by the side of Indian English and international literature. It looks into the ways vernacular community and political rhetoric are intertwined with Anglophone (national or global) positionalities and their roles in political processes. This book will be of interest to researchers, students and scholars of literary and cultural studies, Indian Writing in English, Indian literatures, South Asian languages and popular culture. It will also be extremely valuable for language scholars, sociolinguists, social historians, scholars of cultural studies and those who understand the theoretical issues that concern the notion of “vernacularity”.

Author : Ali Khan Mahmudabad
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190991661

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Poetry of Belonging by Ali Khan Mahmudabad Pdf

Poetry of Belonging is an exploration of north-Indian Muslim identity through poetry at a time when the Indian nation state did not exist. Between 1850 and 1950, when precolonial forms of cultural traditions, such as the musha’irah, were undergoing massive transformations to remain relevant, certain Muslim ‘voices’ configured, negotiated, and articulated their imaginings of what it meant to be Muslim. Using poetry as an archive, the book traces the history of the musha’irah, the site of poetic performance, as a way of understanding public spaces through the changing economic, social, political, and technological contexts of the time. It seeks to locate the changing ideas of watan (homeland) and hubb-e watanī (patriotism) in order to offer new perspectives on how Muslim intellectuals, poets, political leaders, and journalists conceived of and expressed their relationship to India and to the transnational Muslim community. The volume aims to spark a renegotiation of identity and belonging, especially at a time when Muslim loyalty to India has yet again emerged as a politically polarizing question.