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The Hindi Public Sphere, 1920-1940: Language and Literature in the Age of Nationalism
Contributor(s): Orsini, Francesca (Author)

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 ISBN: 0198062206     ISBN-13: 9780198062202
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
OUR PRICE: $33.20  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: June 2009
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Annotation: In this fascinating book, Francesca Orsini documents the creation and development of a public sphere that shaped literature, language, and religious nationalism during the nationalist movement in India.
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Asia - India & South Asia
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Sociolinguistics
- Literary Criticism | Asian - General
Dewey: 306.449
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.6" W x 8.3" L (1.20 lbs) 500 pages
 
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This book analyses how a language became the instrument with which the contours of a new nation were traced. To a colonized people agitating for freedom, a people divided by many languages, cultures and religions, the one language--one nation concept of nationalism proved to be both powerful
and seductive. In polyphonic India, however, such a single 'national' language had to be created, its power established. Most nineteenth-century Hindi intellectuals believed the chosen language to be the 'Hindu' Hindi, not the 'Islamic' Hindustani or Urdu nor any other prominent language like
Bengali.

Orsini shows how early twentieth-century discourses on language, literature, women, history, and politics form the core of the Hindi culture that exist today. She also recovers the many voices, written out of history, which were critical to the national Hindi project. With its depth and scope of
research and thinking, this book will be crucial for any scholar engaging in the issues of nationalism, religion, language, and literature that Orsini so ably weaves together and scrutinizes here.
 
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