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Language as Identity in Colonial India - Policies and Politics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Language as Identity in Colonial India - Policies and Politics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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This book is a systematic narrative, tracking the colonial language
policies and acts responsible for the creation of a sense of
"self-identity" and culminating in the evolution of nationalistic
fervor in colonial India. British policy on language for
administrative use and as a weapon to rule led to the parallel
development of Indian vernaculars: poets, novelists, writers and
journalists produced great and fascinating work that conditioned
and directed India's path to independence. The book presents a
theoretical proposition arguing that language as identity is a
colonial construct in India, and demonstrates this by tracing the
events, policies and changes that led to the development and
churning up of Indian national sentiments and attitudes. It is a
testimony of India's linguistic journey from a British colony to a
modern state. Demonstrating that language as basis of identity was
a colonial construct in modern India, the book asserts that any
in-depth understanding of identity and politics in contemporary
India remains incomplete without looking at colonial policies on
language and education, from which the multiple discourses on
"self" and belonging in modern India emanated.
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