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Language, Identity, and Power in Modern India

Language, Identity, and Power in Modern India

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This book is a historical study of modern Gujarat, India, addressing crucial questions of language, identity, and power. It examines the debates over language among the elite of this region during a period of significant social and political change in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Language debates closely reflect power relations among different sections of society, such as those delineated by nation, ethnicity, region, religion, caste, class, and gender. They are intimately linked with the process in which individuals and groups of people try to define and project themselves in response to changing political, economic, and social environments. Based on rich historical sources, including official records, periodicals, literary texts, memoirs, and private papers, this book vividly shows the impact that colonialism, nationalism, and the process of nation-building had on the ideas of language among different groups, as well as how various ideas of language competed and negotiated with each other. Language, Identity, and Power in Modern India: Gujarat, c.1850–1960 will be of particular interest to students and scholars working on South Asian history and to those interested in issues of language, society, and politics in different parts of the modern world.

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Keywords

  • Bombay City
  • Bombay State
  • common language
  • Female Training College
  • Gujarati
  • Gujarati Elite
  • Gujarati Language
  • Gujarati Literature
  • Gujarati Speakers
  • High Caste Hindus
  • Hindi Sahitya Sammelan
  • Indian people
  • Indulal Yagnik
  • Linguistic Maps
  • Linguistic Provinces
  • Modern Gujarat
  • Modern Languages
  • Nagar Brahmans
  • Pradesh Congress Committee
  • Samyukta Maharashtra
  • States Reorganisation Commission
  • Swaminarayan Sect
  • thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFB Sociolinguistics
  • thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies
  • thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies
  • thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
  • thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology
  • thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government
  • thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history
  • thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history
  • Vice Versa
  • Western Nationalism
  • Young men

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DOI: 10.4324/9781003177166

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Contributors: Riho Isaka,
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2022
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