Negotiating Languages - Urdu, Hindi, and the Definition of Modern South Asia

Klappentext 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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• Authors: Walter Hakala, Walter N. Hakala, Walter N. (Assistant Professor Hakala
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2016
• EAN: 9780231178303
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17830-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: South Asia Across the Disciplines; South Asia Across the Discipli; South Asia Across the Disciplines
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Urdu, Hindi, Nationalism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, South East Asia, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Asian History, Historical & comparative linguistics, Indian sub-continent, South Asia (Indian sub-continent), Historical and comparative linguistics, HISTORY / Asia / South / General