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Negotiating languages : Urdu, Hindi, and the definition of modern South Asia / Walter N. Hakala.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: South Asia across the disciplinesPublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, 2016.Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 287 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780231542128
  • 0231542127
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Negotiating Languages : Urdu, Hindi, and the Definition of Modern South Asia.DDC classification:
  • 306.442/9143054 23
LOC classification:
  • P115.5.S623 H35 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Table of Contents ; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration; Chronology; 1. A Plot Discovered; 2. 1700: Between Microhistory and Macrostructures; 3. 1800: Through the Veil of Poetry; 4. 1900: Lexicography and the Self; 5. 1900: Grasping at Straws ; Conclusion ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index.
Summary: 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 #x93;scientifically" through #x93;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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of Contents ; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration; Chronology; 1. A Plot Discovered; 2. 1700: Between Microhistory and Macrostructures; 3. 1800: Through the Veil of Poetry; 4. 1900: Lexicography and the Self; 5. 1900: Grasping at Straws ; Conclusion ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index.

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 #x93;scientifically" through #x93;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.

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