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Chargement... Nation and Region in Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of Indiapar Javed Majeed
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. On the face of it, the Linguistic Survey of India, led by Grierson and completed after herculean efforts by the late 1920s, is a listing of all the languages spoken in India, with brief descriptions, written examples and recordings. Majeed, however, digs through many layers and discovers the many assumptions and prejudgements involved in defining what speech form is a full language and which is a mere dialect, and finds a distinct tendency to favor Sanskrit-Hindi over Persian-Urdu forms. This is a part of Grierson's implicit preference for Hindu-Aryan as more genuinely Indian, as against imported forms based on Semitic-Islam and Persian-Arabic modes. The book also shows how the Survey, as also Grierson's larger work on Indian languages, especially eastern Hindi forms, was very much a collaborative effort with native scholars, and how Grierson maintained networks of communication, mutual support and profound personal regard, with these native scholars and savants, to many of whom he was both a bridge to western media and government levels, and a source of administrative and moral support. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
George Abraham Grierson's Linguistic Survey of India is one of the most complete sources on South Asian languages. This book is the first detailed examination of the Survey. It shows how the Survey collaborated with Indian activists to consolidate the regional languages in India. By focusing on India as a linguistic region, it was at odds with the colonial state's conceptualisation of the subcontinent, in which religious and caste differences were key to its understanding of Indian society. A number of the Survey's narratives are detachable from its rigorous linguistic imperatives, and together with aspects of Grierson's other texts, these contributed to the way in which Indian nationalists appropriated and reshaped languages, making them religiously charged ideological symbols of particular versions of the subcontinent. Thus, the Survey played an important role in the emergence of religious nationalism and language conflict in the subcontinent in the 20th century. This volume, like its companion volume Colonialism and Knowledge in Grierson's Linguistic Survey of India, will be a great resource for scholars and researchers of linguistics, language and literature, history, political studies, cultural studies and South Asian studies. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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