Negotiating Languages : Urdu, Hindi, and the Definition of Modern South Asia
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
South Asia Across the Disciplines
ISBN-10
0231178301
ISBN-13
9780231178303
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Imprint
Columbia University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 30th, 2016
Print length
320 Pages
Weight
576 grams
Dimensions
23.90 x 16.20 x 3.00 cms
Ksh 11,150.00
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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 intelligible language evolved into two competing registers—Urdu and Hindi—and became associated with contrasting religious and nationalist goals
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