Language and the making of modern India nationalism and the vernacular in colonial Odisha, 1803-1956
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 spre...
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Cambridge University Press
2020
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Nation in the vernacular
- How the Vernacular Became Regional
- Vernacular Publics: A modern Odia readership imagined
- The Odia Political Subject and the Rise of the Odia Movement
- The Odia Political Subject and the Rise of the Odia Movement
- Odisha as Vernacula Homeland
- The Invisible Minority: History and the Problem of the Adivasi
- The Genius of India: Linguistic Difference, Regionalism and the Indian Nation