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Negotiating Languages : Urdu, Hindi, and the Definition of Modern South Asia.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: South Asia Across the Disciplines SeriesPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (317 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780231542128
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Negotiating LanguagesDDC classification:
  • 306.4429143054
LOC classification:
  • P115.5.S623.2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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