Hakala, Walter. <br/><br/>
Negotiating Languages :  Urdu, Hindi, and the Definition of Modern South Asia. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (317 pages) 
 - South Asia Across the Disciplines Series .
 - South Asia Across the Disciplines Series .
<br/><br/>Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Chronology -- 1. A Plot Discovered -- 2. 1700: Between Microhistory and Macrostructures -- 3. 1800: Through the Veil of Poetry -- 4. 1900: Lexicography and the Self -- 5. 1900: Grasping at Straws -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 
<br/><br/> Casts lexicographers as key figures in the political realignment of South Asia under British rule and in the years after independence. Their dictionaries document how a single, mutually intelligible language evolved into two competing registers-Urdu and Hindi-and became associated with contrasting religious and nationalist goals. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780231542128 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Language and languages - South Asia.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>P115.5.S623.2016eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.4429143054