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Negotiating Languages: Urdu, Hindi, and the Definition of Modern South Asia
Walter N. Hakala
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Description for Negotiating Languages: Urdu, Hindi, and the Definition of Modern South Asia
Hardback. Series: South Asia Across the Disciplines. Num Pages: 320 pages, 13 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FK; 1FM; 2BMH; 2BMU; CFF; HBJF; HBLL; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 162 x 30. Weight in Grams: 576.
Prior to the nineteenth century, South Asian dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies reflected a hierarchical vision of nature and human society. By the turn of the twentieth century, the modern dictionary had democratized and politicized language. Compiled scientifically through historical principles, the modern dictionary became a concrete symbol of a nation's arrival on the world stage. Following this phenomenon from the late seventeenth century to the present, Negotiating Languages casts lexicographers as key figures in the political realignment of South Asia under British rule and in the years after independence. Their dictionaries document how a single, mutually ... Read more
Prior to the nineteenth century, South Asian dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies reflected a hierarchical vision of nature and human society. By the turn of the twentieth century, the modern dictionary had democratized and politicized language. Compiled scientifically through historical principles, the modern dictionary became a concrete symbol of a nation's arrival on the world stage. Following this phenomenon from the late seventeenth century to the present, Negotiating Languages casts lexicographers as key figures in the political realignment of South Asia under British rule and in the years after independence. Their dictionaries document how a single, mutually ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
South Asia Across the Disciplines
Condition
New
Weight
576g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231178303
SKU
V9780231178303
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About Walter N. Hakala
Walter Hakala is assistant professor of South Asian languages and literature at the University at Buffalo, SUNY; as of September 2017 he will be Associate Professor in the Department of English. His work has been published in the Indian Economic and Social History Review, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, and Modern Asian Studies.
Reviews for Negotiating Languages: Urdu, Hindi, and the Definition of Modern South Asia
A monumental work. Its eloquence is sublime, the stories are tantalizing, and the illustrations are gripping.
Syed Akbar Hyder, author of Reliving Karbala: Martyrdom in South Asian Memory South Asianists have needed a pioneering book that takes seriously the ideological underpinnings of dictionary production and meaning-making across a range of linguistic, cultural, and class boundaries and shows how dynamic ... Read more
Syed Akbar Hyder, author of Reliving Karbala: Martyrdom in South Asian Memory South Asianists have needed a pioneering book that takes seriously the ideological underpinnings of dictionary production and meaning-making across a range of linguistic, cultural, and class boundaries and shows how dynamic ... Read more