Pritipuspa Mishra

Language and the Making of Modern India

Nationalism and the Vernacular in Colonial Odisha, 1803-1956

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores the ways linguistic nationalism has enabled and deepened the reach of All-India nationalism. This title is also available as Open Access.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781108425735
• ISBN-10: 1108425739
• Artikelnr.: 57118961

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.