Language as Identity in Colonial India: Policies and Politics 1st Edition

Language as Identity in Colonial India: Policies and Politics 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9789811068430,9789811068447,9811068437,9811068445

Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9811068445
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9789811068447
• Author: Papia Sengupta

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.

Table contents:

1. Theoretical Developments: Linking Language to Identity

2. The Language Situation in Colonial India: Story of Bengal

3. Making Identity Out of Language: Beyond Bengal

4. Building Identity: Information, Intellect and Inspiration

5. Construction of Plural Selves in India

6. Language Conundrum

People also search:

language as cultural identity

language and identity essay

colonial language definition

colonial identities in the americas quizlet

colonial identities