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Language As Identity in Colonial India : Policies and Politics by Papia Sengupta is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Language As Identity in Colonial India : Policies and Politics about?
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.
Who reads Language As Identity in Colonial India : Policies and Politics?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Papia Sengupta
- Publisher
- Springer Singapore, Singapore
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789811068430
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Historical Fiction, Linguistics, Language Learning