Pritipuspa Mishra (University of Southampton)

Language and the Making of Modern India

Nationalism and the Vernacular in Colonial Odisha, 1803-1956

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 259
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 392g
• ISBN-13: 9781108443319
• ISBN-10: 1108443311
• Artikelnr.: 64359066

Autorenporträt

Pritipuspa Mishra is a Lecturer in History at the University of Southampton.

Inhaltsangabe

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.