The Hindi Public Sphere 1920 1940

Author : Francesca Orsini
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780199088805

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The Hindi Public Sphere 1920–1940 by Francesca Orsini Pdf

This book analyses how a language became the instrument with which the contours of a new nation were traced. Mapping the success of formalized Hindi in creating a regional public sphere in north India in the early twentieth century, the book explores the way many educated Indians, influenced by the British ideas and institutions, expressed interest in new concepts such as progress, unity, and a common cultural heritage. From the development of new codes and institutions to a language that helped to create space for argument and debate, the book gives an overview of the Hindi public sphere. Furthermore, it throws light on the work of Vasudha Dalmia about the nascent Hindi public sphere and brings to light how early-twentieth-century discourses on language, literature, gender, history, and politics form the core of the Hindi culture that exists today.

Author : Francesca Orsini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Hindi language
ISBN : 0199081433

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The Hindu Public Sphere, 1920-1940 by Francesca Orsini Pdf

This text examines how early 20th-century discourse on language, literature, religion and nationalism contributed to the development of the Hindi language, which evolved during the nationalist movement to become India's national tongue.

Author : Francesca Orsini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literature
ISBN : OCLC:53667350

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The Hindi Public Sphere by Francesca Orsini Pdf

Author : Shobna Nijhawan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199088546

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Women and Girls in the Hindi Public Sphere by Shobna Nijhawan Pdf

The emergence of periodicals in Hindi for women and girls in early-twentieth-century India helped shape the nationalist-feminist thought in the country. Analysing the format and structure of periodical literature, Shobna Nijhawan shows how it became a medium for elite and middle-class women to think in new idioms and express themselves collectively at a time of social transition and political emancipation. With case studies of Hindi women's periodicals including Stri Darpan, Grihalakshmi, and Arya Mahila, and explorations of Hindi girls' periodicals like Kumari Darpan and Kanya Manoranjan, the study brings to light the nationalist demand for home rule for women. Discussing domesticity, political emancipation, and language politics, Shobna argues that women's periodicals instigated change and were not mere witnesses. With a perceptive Introduction setting the context, the work showcases rare archival material: advice texts, advertisements and book reviews, and multiple narratives specifically meant for women and girls of early twentieth-century north India.

Author : Muzaffar Ali
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000883510

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India, Habermas and the Normative Structure of Public Sphere by Muzaffar Ali Pdf

This book examines how the contemporary Indian situation poses a strict theoretical challenge to Habermas’s theorization of the public sphere and employs the method of samvāda to critically analyse and dissect its universalist claims. It invites the reader to consider the possibility of imagining a normative Indian public sphere that is embedded in the Indian context—in a native and not nativist sense—to get past the derivative language of philosophical and political discourses prevalent within Indian academia. The book proposes that the dynamic cooperative space between Indian political theory and contemporary Indian philosophy is effectively suited to theorize the native idea of the Indian public sphere. It underlines the normative need for a natively theorized Indian public sphere to further the multilayered democratization of public spheres within diverse communities that constitute Indian society. The book will be a key read for contemporary studies in philosophy, political theory, sociology, postcolonial theory, history and media and communication studies.

Author : R. Berger
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781137315908

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Ayurveda Made Modern by R. Berger Pdf

This book explores the ways in which Ayurveda, the oldest medical tradition of the Indian subcontinent, was transformed from a composite of 'ancient' medical knowledge into a 'modern' medical system, suited to the demands posed by apparatuses of health developed in late colonial India.

Author : Megan Eaton Robb
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190089375

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Print and the Urdu Public by Megan Eaton Robb Pdf

"In early twentieth century British India, prior to the arrival of digital medias and after the rise of nationalist political movements, a small-town paper from the margins became a key node for an Urdu journalism conversation with particular influence in the United Provinces and Punjab. Understanding this newspaper's rise shows how a print public characterized by bottom-up as well as top-down approaches influenced the evolution of a new type of Urdu public in 20th century South Asia. Addressing a gap in scholarship on Urdu media in the early 20th century, during the period where it underwent some of its most critical transformations, this book contributes a discursive and material analysis of a previously unexamined Urdu newspaper Madinah, augmenting its analysis with evidence from contemporary Urdu, English and Hindi papers, government records, private diaries, private library holdings, ethnographic interviews with families who owned and ran the newspaper, and training materials for newspaper printers. Madinah identified the Urdu newspaper conversation both explicitly and implicitly with Muslim identity, a commitment that became difficult to manage as the pro-Congress paper sought simultaneously to counter calls for Pakistan, to criticize Congress' treatment of Muslims, and to emphasize Urdu's necessary connection to Muslim identity. Since Madinah delineated the boundaries of a Muslim, public conversation in a way that emphasized rootedness to local politics and small urban spaces like Bijnor, this study demonstrates the necessity of considering spatial and temporal orientation in studies of the public in South Asia"--

Author : Peter Thijssen,Walter Weyns,Sara Mels
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317088158

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New Public Spheres by Peter Thijssen,Walter Weyns,Sara Mels Pdf

The public sphere provides a domain of social life in which public opinion is expressed by means of rational discourse and debate. Habermas linked its historical development to the coffee houses and journals in England, Parisian salons and German reading clubs. He described it as a bourgeois public sphere, where private people come together and where they turn from a politically disempowered bourgeoisie into an effective political agent - the public intellectual. With communication networks being diversified and expanded over time, the worldwide web has put pressure on traditional public spheres. These new informal and horizontal networks shaped by the internet create new contexts in which an anonymous and dispersed public may gather in political e-communities to reflect critically on societal issues. These de-centered modes of communication and influence-seeking change the role of the (traditional) public intellectual and - at first sight - seem to make their contributions less influential. What processes, therefore, influence changes within public spheres and how can intellectuals assert authority within them? Should we speak of different types of intellectuals, according to the different modes of public intellectual engagement? This ground-breaking volume gives a multi-disciplinary account of the way in which public intellectuals have constructed their role and position in the public sphere in the past, and how they try to voice public concerns and achieve authority again within those fragmented public spheres today.

Author : Rajeev Bhargava,Helmut Reifeld
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005-05-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0761998322

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Civil Society, Public Sphere and Citizenship by Rajeev Bhargava,Helmut Reifeld Pdf

The original essays brought together in this volume examine the relationship between state and society in India, discuss ideas of citizenship, and study the broad area known as public sphere. The eminent scholars who have contributed to this volume provide numerous fresh insights into issues that have been the subject of extensive debate in recent years. The first book which deals simultaneously with civil society, the public sphere and citizenship in the contemporary context, it also provides a comparative perspective with the West.

Author : Mara Patessio
Publisher : U of M Center For Japanese Studies
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781929280674

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Women and Public Life in Early Meiji Japan by Mara Patessio Pdf

Women and Public Life in Early Meiji Japan focuses on women’s activities in the new public spaces of Meiji Japan. With chapters on public, private, and missionary schools for girls, their students, and teachers, on social and political groups women created, on female employment, and on women’s participation in print media, this book offers a new perspective on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Japanese history. Women’s founding of and participation in conflicting discourses over the value of women in Meiji public life demonstrate that during this period active and vocal women were everywhere, that they did not meekly submit to the dictates of the government and intellectuals over what women could or should do, and that they were fully integrated in the production of Meiji culture. Mara Patessio shows that the study of women is fundamental not only in order to understand fully the transformations of the Meiji period, but also to understand how later generations of women could successfully move the battle forward. Women and Public Life in Early Meiji Japan is essential reading for all students and teachers of 19th- and early 20th-century Japanese history and is of interest to scholars of women’s history more generally.

Author : William Gould
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1139451952

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Hindu Nationalism and the Language of Politics in Late Colonial India by William Gould Pdf

In this book William Gould explores what is arguably one of the most important and controversial themes in twentieth-century Indian history and politics: the nature of Hindu nationalism as an ideology and political language. Rather than concentrating on the main institutions of the Hindu Right in India as other studies have done, the author uses a variety of historical sources to analyse how Hindu nationalism affected the supposedly secularist Congress in the key state of Uttar Pradesh. In this way, the author offers an alternative assessment of how these languages and ideologies transformed the relationship between Congress and north Indian Muslims. The book makes a major contribution to historical analyses of the critical last two decades before Partition and Independence in 1947, which will be of value to scholars interested in historical and contemporary Hindu nationalism, and to students researching the final stages of colonial power in India.

Author : Divya Dwivedi,Sanil V
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472571922

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The Public Sphere From Outside the West by Divya Dwivedi,Sanil V Pdf

The Public Sphere from Outside the West brings together established and emerging new voices from philosophy, literature, anthropology, history, migration studies and information technology to address the present reality of the public sphere. In the age where everyone is in the public and everything is visible, this volume creates a delay in which the internet of things, mass surveillance and social media are asked "What is/not the Public?†? The essays bring to attention the formation of geo-politically and historically distinct public spheres from South Africa, India, America and Europe. Such formations are found not only in the postcolonial histories of print, photography, cinema and caricature but also those underway in the digital era, such as the Arab Spring, Occupy movements and Anonymous. Through critical engagement with philosophers such as Kant, Heidegger, Benjamin, Habermas and Arendt , the determining concepts of the Public Sphere-privacy, secrecy, reason, the people-are shown to be undergoing epistemological and practical ruptures. Demonstrating the necessity of these considerations to understand the world public that is rapidly transforming this concept in radical ways through technologies today, this is the first collection on the subject to feature an impressive range of international thinkers. Global and timely in outlook, it breaks new ground and changes our way of looking at politics in the 21st century.

Author : S. Harikrishnan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000786583

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Social Spaces and the Public Sphere by S. Harikrishnan Pdf

What can social spaces tell us about social relations in society? How do everyday social spaces like teashops, reading rooms, and libraries reify—or subvert—dominant social structures like caste and gender? These are the questions that this book explores through a study of modern Kerala. Using archival material, discourse analysis, participant observation, and personal interviews, this book traces the transformation of public spaces through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The volume focuses on how "modernity" has also been a struggle for access to public spaces, and non-institutional spaces like teashops, markets, public roads, temple grounds, reading rooms, and libraries have all been crucial to how political culture was shaped, and how dominant hegemonies—caste, class, or capital—have been challenged. It suggests that the secular public sphere that emerged in the last century in Kerala was a result of the constant negotiations between conflicting ideas which were put to test in these social spaces. At a time when digital spaces are fast replacing physical ones, this book is a timely reminder of the struggles that led to the emergence of secular public spaces in Kerala. It contributes to similar studies on public space that have emerged from other parts of the world over the last decades. A major contribution to understanding modern India, this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of social history, political science, political sociology, gender studies, linguistics, and South Asian studies.

Author : M. D. Muthukumaraswamy,Molly Kaushal
Publisher : NFSC www.indianfolklore.org
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 9788190148146

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Folklore, Public Sphere, and Civil Society by M. D. Muthukumaraswamy,Molly Kaushal Pdf

In the Indian context; papers presented at a symposium held at New Delhi in 2002.

Author : Prabhu Bapu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415671651

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Hindu Mahasabha in Colonial North India, 1915-1930 by Prabhu Bapu Pdf

Hindu nationalism has emerged as a political ideology represented by the Hindu Mahasabha. This book explores the campaign for Hindu unity and organisation in the context of the Hindu-Muslim conflict in colonial north India in the early twentieth century. It argues that India's partition in 1947 was a result of the campaign and politics of the Hindu rightwing rather than the Islamist politics of the Muslim League alone. The book explains that the Mahasabha articulated Hindu nationalist ideology as a means of constructing a distinct Hindu political identity and unity among the Hindus in conflict with the Muslims in the country. It looks at the Mahasabha’s ambivalence with the Indian National Congress due to an extreme ideological opposition, and goes on to argue that the Mahasabha had its ideological focus on an anti-Muslim antagonism rather than the anti-British struggle for India’s independence, adding to the difficulties in the negotiations on Hindu-Muslim representation in the country. The book suggests that the Mahasabha had a limited class and regional base and was unable to generate much in the way of a mass movement of its own, but developed a quasi-military wing, besides its involvement in a number of popular campaigns. Bridging the gap in Indian historiography by focusing on the development and evolution of Hindu nationalism in its formative period, this book is a useful study for students and scholars of Asian Studies and Political History.