Negotiating Languages: Urdu, Hindi, and the Definition of Modern South Asia
Walter HakalaCasts 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
წელი:
2017
გამომცემლობა:
Columbia University Press
ენა:
english
გვერდები:
320
ISBN 10:
0231542127
ISBN 13:
9780231542128
ფაილი:
PDF, 2.66 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2017