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At the Margins: Discourses of Development, Democracy, and Regionalism in Odisha
Jayanta Sengupta
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 416 pages, Map: 1. BIC Classification: 1FKA; CFB; HBJF; JHB; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 37. Weight in Grams: 652.
In comparison to other well-known linguistic movements in India (like the Andhra or the Tamil movements), Orissa is the single instance of the imagination of a pan-regional linguistic identity that made a successful negotiation with the colonial state by using mainly constitutional means within the framework of colonial power. Subsequently, like many other linguistic movements that culminated in statehood in postcolonial India, its appeal waxed and waned and over the long run gradually declined in the second half of the twentieth century, as language came to be displaced by issues of development and underdevelopment as the prime movers of identity ... Read more
In comparison to other well-known linguistic movements in India (like the Andhra or the Tamil movements), Orissa is the single instance of the imagination of a pan-regional linguistic identity that made a successful negotiation with the colonial state by using mainly constitutional means within the framework of colonial power. Subsequently, like many other linguistic movements that culminated in statehood in postcolonial India, its appeal waxed and waned and over the long run gradually declined in the second half of the twentieth century, as language came to be displaced by issues of development and underdevelopment as the prime movers of identity ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
New Delhi, India
ISBN
9780198099154
SKU
V9780198099154
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About Jayanta Sengupta
Jayanta Sengutpa is Secretary and Curator (Director), Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata.
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