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  title info:
    title: Language as Identity in Colonial India
    sub title: Policies and Politics
  name:
    name part: Sengupta, Papia.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: si
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXI, 120 p. online resource.
  abstract: This book is a systematic narrative, tracking the colonial language policies and acts responsible for the creation of a sense of "self-identity" and culminating in the evolution of nationalistic fervor in colonial India. British policy on language for administrative use and as a weapon to rule led to the parallel development of Indian vernaculars: poets, novelists, writers and journalists produced great and fascinating work that conditioned and directed India's path to independence. The book presents a theoretical proposition arguing that language as identity is a colonial construct in India, and demonstrates this by tracing the events, policies and changes that led to the development and churning up of Indian national sentiments and attitudes. It is a testimony of India's linguistic journey from a British colony to a modern state. Demonstrating that language as basis of identity was a colonial construct in modern India, the book asserts that any in-depth understanding of identity and politics in contemporary India remains incomplete without looking at colonial policies on language and education, from which the multiple discourses on "self" and belonging in modern India emanated. .
  note: by Papia Sengupta.
  subject:
    topic: Asia-Politics and government
  subject:
    topic: Language policy
  subject:
    topic: Languages
  subject:
    topic: Language and languages
  subject:
    topic: Historical linguistics
  subject:
    topic: Asian Politics
  subject:
    topic: Language Policy and Planning
  subject:
    topic: Asian Languages
  subject:
    topic: Language History
  classification: JQ1-1852
  classification: 320.95
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9789811068447
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6844-7
  record info:
    record creation date: 171116
    record change date: 20191022112558.0
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