Javed Majeed

Nation and Region in Grierson's Linguistic Survey of India (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is the first detailed examination of Grierson's Linguistic Survey of India. It shows how the Survey collaborated with Indian activists to consolidate the regional languages in India. It highlights how the Survey played an important role in the emergence of religious nationalism and language conflict in the subcontinent in 20th century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429799341
• Artikelnr.: 54274356

Autorenporträt

Javed Majeed is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at King's College London, UK, and has held appointments at SOAS, University of London, and Queen Mary University of London. He has published widely on the intellectual and literary history of modern South Asia. His previous books include Ungoverned Imaginings: James Mill's The History of British India and Orientalism (1992), Autobiography, Travel and Postnational Identity: Gandhi, Nehru and Iqbal (2007), and Muhammad Iqbal: Islam, Aesthetics and Postcolonialism (2009).