Papia Sengupta

Language as Identity in Colonial India (eBook, PDF)

Policies and Politics

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Produktbeschreibung

Analyzes language and its role in identity formation in British India, an area devoid of any systematic study

Systematically tracks the politics of language in the colonial period, and shows how that conditioned post-independence politics

Places language at the core of thinking and rationalizing about India

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore
• Seitenzahl: 120
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789811068447
• Artikelnr.: 52938135

Autorenporträt

Dr. Papia Sengupta, Assistant Professor, Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences II, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Theoretical developments-linking language to identity.- Chapter 2 Language situation in colonial India: Story of Bengal.- Chapter 3 Making identity out of language: Beyond Bengal.- Chapter 4 Building identity: Information, intellect and inspiration.- Chapter 5 Language and construction of plural selves.- Chapter 6 Language conundrum.