Language Ideologies and the Vernacular in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia (eBook, ePUB)

Rethinking Language, Culture and Society
Redaktion: Zaidi, Nishat; Harder, Hans

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume critically engages with recent formulations and debates regarding the status of regional languages of the Indian subcontinent vis-à-vis English. It explores how language ideologies of the "vernacular" are positioned in relation to language ideologies of English in South Asia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000930429
• Artikelnr.: 68616540

Autorenporträt

Nishat Zaidi is a professor and former head of the Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. She has authored/translated/edited 16 books. Some of her recent publications include Karbala: A Historical Play (translation of Premchand's play Karbala with a critical introduction and notes) (2022), Ocean as Method: Thinking with the Maritime (with Dilip Menon et al. 2022), Literary Cultures and Digital Humanities in India (with A. Sean Pue 2022), Makers of Indian Literature: Agha Shahid Ali (2016), Day and Dastan (with Alok Bhalla, 2018) and Between Worlds: The Travels of Yusuf Khan Kambalposh (with Mushirul Hasan, 2014). Hans Harder is a professor of Modern South Asian Languages and Literatures at the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University, Germany. His research interests include modern literatures in South Asia, particularly Bengali, religious movements, and colonial and post-colonial intellectual history. He has written and/or edited Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay's ¿r¿m¿adbhagabadg¿t¿a:¿ Translation and Analysis (2001); Literature and Nationalist Ideology: Writing Histories of Modern Indian Languages (2010); Sufism and Saint Veneration in Contemporary Bangladesh (Routledge 2011); Asian Punches: A Transcultural Affair (with Barbara Mittler, 2013) and Literary Sentiments in the Vernacular (with Charu Gupta, Laura Brueck and Shobna Nijhawan, Routledge 2021).

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Introduction: Language Ideologies and the 'Vernacular': A Critical Perspective



Nishat Zaidi and Hans Harder



PART I

Ideologies of Vernaculars and English

1 Beyond Hegemonic Binaries: English and the 'Vernaculars' in Post-liberalization India



Javed Majeed



2 Urdu Language Ideologies and Pakistani Identity



Arian Hopf



3 "Mother English": Savitribai Phule on Caste Patriarchy and the Ideology of the English Vernacular

Christian Lee Novetzke

4 The Location of Theory: Bha s a Literatures in Indian and North American Postcolonialism



Suddhaseel Sen



5 A Vernacular Archive of Sex and Sexuality: Personal Annotations



Charu Gupta



6 Political Reform, Territorialising Language: Re-casting Difference, Constitutional Categories and Developmental Goals, 1905-1950s



Veena Naregal



PART II

Lost/Found in Translation between Vernaculars and English

7 Linguistic Estrangement: When Is a Language My Own?



Sudipta Kaviraj



8 British Translators, Bhagat Singh, and 'Atheism': How 'Reverse Translation' Alters the Meaning of Philosophical Concepts



Ruth Vanita



9 Telling Lives in Forked Tongues: Reading Shanta Gokhale's and Nabaneeta Dev Sen's Autobiographical Writings



Dhrupadi Chattopadhyay



10 Vernacularizing Science in Colonial Bengal: A Translational Site of 'Other' Archives



Indrani Das Gupta



11 Multilingual Locals in Transnational Geographies: Vaijñan ik Upanyas and the Cosmopolitanisation of Hindi in Late Colonial North India

Ishita Singh

PART III

Language Ideology, Literature and the Vernacular Public Spheres

12 Vernacularizing Emotions: Mohammed Ali's Comrade and Hamdard



Margrit Pernau



13 In Defence of the Prem sa gar: Re-evaluating the Narrative of the Hindi-Urdu Split



Gautam Liu



14 Vernaculars across Texts: Modern Islam and Modern Literature in Bengal



Neilesh Bose



15 Reading Caste in Vernacular Journals



Meenakshi Yadav



16 A South Asian Vernacular Public Overseas: Tamil in the Straits Settlements, c. 1870-1942



Torsten Tschacher

Index