Language Ideologies and the Vernacular in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia 1st Edition by Zaidi Nishat, Hans Harder ISBN 1032247347 9781032247342

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Author: Zaidi Nishat, Hans Harder

Language Ideologies and the Vernacular in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia 1st Table of contents:

Part I – Ideologies of Vernaculars and English

1. Beyond Hegemonic Binaries: English and the ‘Vernaculars’ in Post-liberalization India

• Economic Liberalization and English as an Index of Global Competitiveness

• The ‘Neutrality’ of English and the English-Vernacular Binary

• Vernacular ‘Authenticity’ and ‘Inauthentic’ Globality

• English as Permanently Colonial and the Ideology of Nativism

• The Joint Hegemonization of English and the Vernaculars

• The Ideology of Classicism

• Moving beyond the English-Vernacular Binary

• References

2. Urdu Language Ideologies and Pakistani Identity

• Islam

• Taḥrīk-i adab-i islāmī

• Geography

• Urdu in the Indus Valley Civilisation

• Indo-Muslim Culture and Urdu

• Muhammad Hasan Askari and Urdu as Symbol for Indo-Muslim Culture

• Jamil Jalibi

• Conclusion

• Notes

• Bibliography

3. “Mother English”: Savitribai Phule on Caste Patriarchy and the Ideology of the English Vernacular

• Conclusion

• Acknowledgements

• Notes

• Bibliography

4. The Location of Theory: Bhāṣa Literatures in Indian and North American Postcolonialism

• Postcolonialism: North American Theorising, Indian Responses

• Theory, “Vernacular” Literary Scholarship, and Interdisciplinary Studies in India

• Concluding Observations

• Notes

• Bibliography

5. A Vernacular Archive of Sex and Sexuality: Personal Annotations

• Servants and Sexual Anxieties

• Religious Conversions as Sites of Desire

• Vernacular Sexology from the Margins

• Conclusion

• Acknowledgement

• References

6. Political Reform, Territorialising Language: Re-casting Difference, Constitutional Categories and Developmental Goals, 1905–1950s

• Introduction

• Linguistic Regions, Political Reform

• Social Difference, Political Reform, Representation

• Legitimising Linguistic Provinces: Nehru Report, Regional Universities

• Regional Languages and University Network after 1917

• ‘Regional’ Federalists vs. Developmentalist Federalism

• Conclusion

• Notes

• Bibliography

Part II – Lost/Found in Translation between Vernaculars and English

7. Linguistic Estrangement: When Is a Language My Own?

• Estrangement

• Precolonial Linguistic Economy

• How Language Opens up the World to Us

• Thinking about Social Theory in Bengali

• Our Language about the Natural World

• Our Language about the Social World

• Language of Experience and the Language of Reflection

• Sociological Settings of Language Use

• Is There Family Resemblance in Language?

• On the Relation between Natural and Conceptual Languages

• Estrangement or Cosmopolitanism?

• Do We Actually Have an Advantage?

• Time Inside a Language

• Notes

• References

8. British Translators, Bhagat Singh, and ‘Atheism’: How ‘Reverse Translation’ Alters the Meaning of Philosophical Concepts

• Reverse Translation and Intercultural Mimesis

• ‘Atheists’?

• Dictionaries Invent Meaning

• Modern Usage: Bhagat Singh’s Essay

• Bhagat Singh’s Only Indian Source

• Why It Matters

• Notes

• Bibliography

9. Telling Lives in Forked Tongues: Reading Shanta Gokhale’s and Nabaneeta Dev Sen’s Autobiographical Writings

• Gendering Bilinguality: Women’s Life-Writing and the Vernacular

• Reading Humour in the Everyday

• Notes

• Bibliography

10. Vernacularizing Science in Colonial Bengal: A Translational Site of ‘Other’ Archives

• Theorizing Science in Colonial India

• Emergence of Popular Consciousness in Colonial Bengal

• ‘The Diary of Professor Heshoram Hunshiyar’ and Vernacularized Science

• Conclusion

• Notes

• Bibliography

11. Multilingual Locals in Transnational Geographies: Vaijñānik Upanyās and the Cosmopolitanisation of Hindi in Late Colonial North India

• Vijñān: Translating Science into the Vernacular

• The Novel of the New Mechanical Age

• Vaijñānik Upanyās: Svargˡpurī and Bāīsˡvīṃ Sadī

• Vaijñānik Upanyās: Domesticating the ‘Alien’ and Cosmopolitanising the Self

• At Home with the World: Multilingual Locals in Transnational Geographies

• Notes

• Bibliography

Part III – Language Ideology, Literature and the Vernacular Public Spheres

12. Vernacularizing Emotions: Mohammed Ali’s Comrade and Hamdard

• Introduction

• Mohammed Ali on English and Urdu

• The Future of Islam

• Kanpur

• Conclusion

• Acknowledgement

• Notes

• References

13. In Defence of the Premˡsāgar: Re-evaluating the Narrative of the Hindi–Urdu Split

• Introduction

• I Beg to Differ and Question This Narrative

• Sanskritised versus Sanskrit-Oriented

• Hindi and Urdu Prose Literature before 1800

• The Language of the Premˡsāgar

• A Conceptual Misunderstanding

• The Underlying Agenda against the Premˡsāgar

• Epilogue

• Notes

• References

14. Vernaculars across Texts: Modern Islam and Modern Literature in Bengal

• Introduction

• The Brahmo Samaj

• Keshab Chunder Sen and Comparative Religion

• Aghore Nath Gupta

• Language Politics and the Bengali “Vernacular”

• Conclusion

• Notes

• Bibliography

15. Reading Caste in Vernacular Journals

• Advertisement and Notice Sections

• Language and Literature

• Construction of Histories

• Modernity and Caste Associations

• Education and Caste Journals

• Conclusion

• Acknowledgement

• Notes

• References

  • Official Publications

  • Periodicals

  • Other Publications

16. A South Asian Vernacular Public Overseas: Tamil in the Straits Settlements, c. 1870–1942

• Introduction

• Toward Print: The Early History of Tamil-Language Publics in the Straits Settlements

• Tamil Publishing in the Straits Settlements: A General Overview

• Money Matters, or Language without Community

• The Triumph of Nationalism(s): Erasing a Multilanguage Order

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