TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mishra,Pritipuspa
TI  - Language and the making of modern India: nationalism and the vernacular in colonial Odisha, 1803-1956 
SN  - 9781108591263 (ebook)
AV  - P119.32.I4 M565 2020
U1  - 409.54/133 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Language policy
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - India
KW  - Odisha
KW  - Odisha (India)
KW  - Languages
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Jan 2020); Introduction: Nation in the vernacular -- How the Vernacular Became Regional  --  Vernacular Publics: A modern Odia readership imagined  --  The Odia Political Subject and the Rise of the Odia Movement -- The Odia Political Subject and the Rise of the Odia Movement --  Odisha as Vernacula Homeland --  The Invisible Minority: History and the Problem of the Adivasi --  The Genius of India: Linguistic Difference, Regionalism and the Indian Nation
N2  - Through an examination of the creation of the first linguistically organized province in India, Odisha, Pritipuspa Mishra explores the ways regional languages came to serve as the most acceptable registers of difference in post-colonial India. She argues that rather than disrupting the rise and spread of All-India nationalism, regional linguistic nationalism enabled and deepened the reach of nationalism in provincial India. Yet this positive narrative of the resolution of Indian multilingualism ignores the cost of linguistic division. Examining the case of the Adivasis of Odisha, Mishra shows how regional languages in India have come to occupy a curiously hegemonic position. Her study pushes us to rethink our understanding of the vernacular in India as a powerless medium and acknowledges the institutional power of language, contributing to global debates about linguistic justice and the governance of multilingualism. This title is also available as Open Access
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108591263
ER  -