Language and the Making of Modern India
Nationalism and the Vernacular in Colonial Odisha, 1803–1956
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2022
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-44331-9 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-44331-9 (ISBN)
Mishra explores the history of the first linguistically organized province in India, Odisha, to illustrate the relationship between linguistic politics and nationalism. She considers the ways the state has dealt with multilingualism and the role of languages in the constitution of the Indian nation. This title is also available as Open Access.
Through an examination of the creation of the first linguistically organized province in India, Odisha, Pritipuspa Mishra explores the ways regional languages came to serve as the most acceptable registers of difference in post-colonial India. She argues that rather than disrupting the rise and spread of All-India nationalism, regional linguistic nationalism enabled and deepened the reach of nationalism in provincial India. Yet this positive narrative of the resolution of Indian multilingualism ignores the cost of linguistic division. Examining the case of the Adivasis of Odisha, Mishra shows how regional languages in India have come to occupy a curiously hegemonic position. Her study pushes us to rethink our understanding of the vernacular in India as a powerless medium and acknowledges the institutional power of language, contributing to global debates about linguistic justice and the governance of multilingualism. This title is also available as Open Access.
Through an examination of the creation of the first linguistically organized province in India, Odisha, Pritipuspa Mishra explores the ways regional languages came to serve as the most acceptable registers of difference in post-colonial India. She argues that rather than disrupting the rise and spread of All-India nationalism, regional linguistic nationalism enabled and deepened the reach of nationalism in provincial India. Yet this positive narrative of the resolution of Indian multilingualism ignores the cost of linguistic division. Examining the case of the Adivasis of Odisha, Mishra shows how regional languages in India have come to occupy a curiously hegemonic position. Her study pushes us to rethink our understanding of the vernacular in India as a powerless medium and acknowledges the institutional power of language, contributing to global debates about linguistic justice and the governance of multilingualism. This title is also available as Open Access.
Pritipuspa Mishra is a Lecturer in History at the University of Southampton.
Introduction: nation in the vernacular; 1. How the vernacular became regional; 2. Vernacular publics: a modern Odia readership imagined; 3. The Odia political subject and the rise of the Odia movement; 4. Odisha as vernacular homeland; 5. The invisible minority: history and the problem of the Adivasi; 6. The genius of India: linguistic difference, regionalism and the Indian nation; Postscript.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.10.2022 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises; 7 Maps |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 150 x 228 mm |
| Gewicht | 380 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-108-44331-1 / 1108443311 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-108-44331-9 / 9781108443319 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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