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Book/Printed Material Language and the making of modern India : nationalism and the vernacular in colonial Odisha, 1803-1956

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Title

  • Language and the making of modern India : nationalism and the vernacular in colonial Odisha, 1803-1956

Summary

  • "In the National Anthem, India is portrayed as a collection of images, some geographical and some linguistic. Written by Rabindranath Tagore in 1911, this poem staked out linguistic regions long before they were officially formed. By juxtaposing language based regions like Punjab, Gujarat, Maratha, Utkala and Banga with geographical features of the Indian landscape such as the mountains of Vindhyas and Himalayas, the Ganga and Yamuna rivers and the Indian Ocean, the anthem endows these linguistic regions with a naturalness that can be belied by an attention to the history of how these regions came to be formed in modern India. Just as mountains, rivers and oceans were seen as primeval features of the national landscape, so too were the territorial domains of these languages"-- Provided by publisher.

Names

  • Mishra, Pritipuspa, 1979- author

Created / Published

  • New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Contents

  • Introduction: Nation in the vernacular -- How the Vernacular Became Regional -- Vernacular Publics: A modern Odia readership imagined -- The Odia Political Subject and the Rise of the Odia Movement -- The Odia Political Subject and the Rise of the Odia Movement -- Odisha as Vernacula Homeland -- The Invisible Minority: History and the Problem of the Adivasi -- The Genius of India: Linguistic Difference, Regionalism and the Indian Nation.

Headings

  • -  Language policy--Political aspects--India--Odisha
  • -  Odisha (India)--Languages--Political aspects

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • -  Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

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  • 1 online resource

Call Number/Physical Location

  • P119.32.I4

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2019029343

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Mishra, Pritipuspa, Author. Language and the making of modern India: nationalism and the vernacular in colonial Odisha, -1956. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2019029343/.

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Mishra, P. (2019) Language and the making of modern India: nationalism and the vernacular in colonial Odisha, -1956. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2019029343/.

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Mishra, Pritipuspa, Author. Language and the making of modern India: nationalism and the vernacular in colonial Odisha, -1956. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2019029343/>.