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oapen-20.500.12657-440862021-01-25T13:50:49Z Language and the Making of Modern India Mishra, Pritipuspa History Asia India & South Asia bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJF Asian history Through an examination of the creation of the first linguistically organized province in India, Odisha, Pritipuspa Mishra explores the ways regional languages came to serve as the most acceptable registers of difference in post-colonial India. She argues that rather than disrupting the rise and spread of All-India nationalism, regional linguistic nationalism enabled and deepened the reach of nationalism in provincial India. Yet this positive narrative of the resolution of Indian multilingualism ignores the cost of linguistic division. Examining the case of the Adivasis of Odisha, Mishra shows how regional languages in India have come to occupy a curiously hegemonic position. Her study pushes us to rethink our understanding of the vernacular in India as a powerless medium and acknowledges the institutional power of language, contributing to global debates about linguistic justice and the governance of multilingualism. 2020-12-15T14:23:05Z 2020-12-15T14:23:05Z 2018 book 9781108591263 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/44086 eng application/pdf n/a external_content.pdf Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108591263 103149 https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108591263 7607a2d0-47af-490f-9d2a-8c9340266f8a b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781108591263 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Cambridge University Press Knowledge Unlatched open access
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Through an examination of the creation of the first linguistically organized province in India, Odisha, Pritipuspa Mishra explores the ways regional languages came to serve as the most acceptable registers of difference in post-colonial India. She argues that rather than disrupting the rise and spread of All-India nationalism, regional linguistic nationalism enabled and deepened the reach of nationalism in provincial India. Yet this positive narrative of the resolution of Indian multilingualism ignores the cost of linguistic division. Examining the case of the Adivasis of Odisha, Mishra shows how regional languages in India have come to occupy a curiously hegemonic position. Her study pushes us to rethink our understanding of the vernacular in India as a powerless medium and acknowledges the institutional power of language, contributing to global debates about linguistic justice and the governance of multilingualism.
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