ISBN:
9780231542128
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (317 pages)
Series Statement:
South Asia Across the Disciplines
Parallel Title:
Hakala, Walter N. Negotiating languages
DDC:
306.4429143054
Keywords:
Language and languages - South Asia
;
Multilingualism South Asia
;
Historical linguistics South Asia
;
Sociolinguistics South Asia
;
South Asia Languages
;
Language and languages South Asia
;
Electronic books
;
Südasien
;
Hindi
;
Urdu
;
Lexikografie
;
Soziolinguistik
;
Geschichte 1700-1900
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
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.
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