ISBN:
9780253002891
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0253002893
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0253353017
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9780253353016
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0253220696
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9780253220691
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xv, 281 p.)
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ill., maps.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library
Series Statement:
Contemporary indian studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Mitchell, Lisa, 1966- Language, emotion, and politics in south India
DDC:
306.44909548
Keywords:
Language policy India, South
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Language policy
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Language policy
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Language and languages ; Political aspects
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Sprachpolitik
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Linguistics ; Sociolinguistics
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India, South Languages
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Political aspects
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India, South
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Indien 〈Süd〉
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India, South Languages
;
Political aspects
;
Indien ; Süd
;
South India
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Electronic books Electronic books
Abstract:
What makes someone willing to die, not for a nation, but for a language? In the mid-20th century, southern India saw a wave of dramatic suicides in the name of language. Lisa Mitchell traces the colonial-era changes in knowledge and practice linked to the Telugu language that lay behind some of these events. As identities based on language came to appear natural, the road was paved for the political reorganization of the Indian state along linguistic lines after independence
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-269) and index. - Description based on print version record
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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