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This volume critically engages with recent formulations and debates
regarding the status of regional languages of the Indian
subcontinent vis-Ă -vis English. It explores how language
ideologies of the "vernacular" are positioned in relation to
language ideologies of English in South Asia. The book probes into
how we might move beyond the English-vernacular binary in India,
explores what happened to âbhasha literaturesâ during the
colonial and post-colonial periods, and how to position those
literatures by the side of Indian English and international
literature. The looks into the ways vernacular community and
political rhetoric are intertwined with Anglophone (national or
global) positionalities, and their role in political processes.
This book will be of interest to researchers, students and scholars
of literary and cultural studies, Indian Writing in English, Indian
literatures, South Asian languages, and popular culture. It will
also be extremely valuable for language scholars, sociolinguists,
social historians and the scholars of cultural studies and those
who understand the theoretical issues that concern the notion of
âvernacularityâ.
This book explores the use of digital humanities (DH) to
understand, interpret, and annotate the poetics of Indian literary
and cultural texts, which circulate in digital forms - in
manuscripts - and as oral or musical performance. Drawing on the
linguistic, cultural, historical, social, and geographic diversity
of Indian texts and contexts, it foregrounds the use of digital
technologies - including minimal computing, novel digital
humanities research and teaching methodologies, critical archive
generation and maintenance - for explicating poetics of Indian
literatures and generating scholarly digital resources which will
facilitate comparative readings. With contributions from DH
scholars and practitioners from across India, the United States,
the United Kingdom, and more, this book will be a key intervention
for scholars and researchers of literature and literary theory, DH,
media studies, and South Asian Studies.
1) This book critically examines the socio-cultural imaginings of
Gandhi in the present day. 2) It contains articles written by
scholars like Simona Sawhney, Bhaswati Chatterjee, T Satyanath, and
Haris Qadeer. 3) This book will be of interest to departments of
Gandhian Studies, Cultural Studies and South Asian Studies across
UK.
This volume critically engages with recent formulations and debates
regarding the status of regional languages of the Indian
subcontinent vis-Ă -vis English. It explores how language
ideologies of the "vernacular" are positioned in relation to
language ideologies of English in South Asia. The book probes into
how we might move beyond the English-vernacular binary in India,
explores what happened to âbhasha literaturesâ during the
colonial and post-colonial periods, and how to position those
literatures by the side of Indian English and international
literature. The looks into the ways vernacular community and
political rhetoric are intertwined with Anglophone (national or
global) positionalities, and their role in political processes.
This book will be of interest to researchers, students and scholars
of literary and cultural studies, Indian Writing in English, Indian
literatures, South Asian languages, and popular culture. It will
also be extremely valuable for language scholars, sociolinguists,
social historians and the scholars of cultural studies and those
who understand the theoretical issues that concern the notion of
âvernacularityâ.
This book examines the validity of the notion of the
âvernacularâ and the position of the so-called
âvernacularsâ in colonial and postcolonial settings. It
addresses recent formulations and debates regarding the status of
regional languages of South Asia in relation to English. The
authors explore the range of meanings the term has assumed and
trace a history of contestation since the colonial age. They
contend that though the 'vernacular' in South Asia has, since the
19th century, often operated as a hegemonic category relegating the
languages thus designated to an inferior status, those languages
(and other cultural formations labeled as 'vernacular') have also
received empowering impulses and vested with qualities like
groundedness and strength. The book highlights the need for a
critical discussion of the notion of the âvernacularâ in the
context of the ongoing rise of Anglophonia in South Asia as a
whole, and post-liberalization India in particular. The volume will
be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literary and
culture studies, history, postcolonial studies and South Asian
studies.
This volume studies the ways in which modernity has been conceived,
practiced, and performed in Indian literatures from the 18th to
20th century. It brings together essays on writings in Hindi, Urdu,
Punjabi, Bengali, Odia, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada,
Malayalam, and languages from Northeast India, which form a
dialogical relationship with each other in this volume. The
concurrence and contradictions emerging through these studies
problematize the idea of modernity afresh. The book challenges the
dominance of colonial modernity through socio-historical and
cultural analysis of how modernity surfaces as a multifaceted
phenomenon when contextualized in the multilingual ethos of India.
It further tracks the complex ways in which modernism in India is
tied to the harvests of modernity. It argues for the need to shift
focus on the specific conditions that gave shape to multiple
modernities within literatures produced from India. A versatile
collection, the book incorporates engagements with not just long
prose fiction but also lesser-known essays, research works, and
short stories published in popular magazines. This unique work will
be of interest to students and teachers of Indian writing in
English, Indian literatures, and comparative literatures. It will
be indispensable to scholars of South Asian studies, literary
historians, linguists, and scholars of cultural studies across the
globe.
This book imagines the ocean as central to understanding the world
and its connections in history, literature and the social sciences.
Introducing the central conceptual category of ocean as method, it
analyzes the histories of movement and traversing across connected
spaces of water and land sedimented in literary texts, folklore,
local histories, autobiographies, music and performance. It
explores the constant flow of people, material and ideologies
across the waters and how they make their presence felt in a
cosmopolitan thinking of the connections of the world. Going beyond
violent histories of slavery and indenture that generate global
connections, it tracks the movements of sailors, boatmen, religious
teachers, merchants, and adventurers. The essays in this volume
summon up this miscegenated history in which land and water are
ever linked. A significant rethinking of world history, this volume
will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of history,
especially connected history and maritime history, literature, and
Global South studies.
This book explores the use of digital humanities (DH) to
understand, interpret, and annotate the poetics of Indian literary
and cultural texts, which circulate in digital forms - in
manuscripts - and as oral or musical performance. Drawing on the
linguistic, cultural, historical, social, and geographic diversity
of Indian texts and contexts, it foregrounds the use of digital
technologies - including minimal computing, novel digital
humanities research and teaching methodologies, critical archive
generation and maintenance - for explicating poetics of Indian
literatures and generating scholarly digital resources which will
facilitate comparative readings. With contributions from DH
scholars and practitioners from across India, the United States,
the United Kingdom, and more, this book will be a key intervention
for scholars and researchers of literature and literary theory, DH,
media studies, and South Asian Studies.
1) This book critically examines the socio-cultural imaginings of
Gandhi in the present day. 2) It contains articles written by
scholars like Simona Sawhney, Bhaswati Chatterjee, T Satyanath, and
Haris Qadeer. 3) This book will be of interest to departments of
Gandhian Studies, Cultural Studies and South Asian Studies across
UK.
Ocean as Method presents a new way of thinking about the humanities
and the social sciences. It explores maritime connections in social
and humanistic research and puts forward an alternative to national
histories and area studies. As global warming and rising sea levels
ring alarm bells across the world, the chapters in the volume argue
that it is time to think through oceans to realign discourses which
better understand our future. The volume: * Engages with the
paradigms of oceanic narratives to identify connections between
continents through trade, migration, and economic processes,
thinking beyond the artificial distinctions between the Pacific,
Atlantic, and Indian Oceans; * Discusses oceanic travel accounts by
Muslim travellers to counter the idea that the colonial era was
marked by European travel to Asia and Africa, without a counterflow
of "native travel"; *Examines the connections between South Africa,
South Asia, and South East Asia through histories of Indian
indenture and the slave trade, and engages with the idea of the
ocean and enforced movement; *Compares and connects recent
scholarship in the social sciences and the humanities centring the
ocean to break away from inherited paradigms which have shaped
world history so far. As a unique transdisciplinary collaboration,
this volume will be of much interest to scholars and researchers of
history, especially oceanic history, historiography, critical
theory, literature, geography, and Global South studies.
Ocean as Method presents a new way of thinking about the humanities
and the social sciences. It explores maritime connections in social
and humanistic research and puts forward an alternative to national
histories and area studies. As global warming and rising sea levels
ring alarm bells across the world, the chapters in the volume argue
that it is time to think through oceans to realign discourses which
better understand our future. The volume: * Engages with the
paradigms of oceanic narratives to identify connections between
continents through trade, migration, and economic processes,
thinking beyond the artificial distinctions between the Pacific,
Atlantic, and Indian Oceans; * Discusses oceanic travel accounts by
Muslim travellers to counter the idea that the colonial era was
marked by European travel to Asia and Africa, without a counterflow
of "native travel"; *Examines the connections between South Africa,
South Asia, and South East Asia through histories of Indian
indenture and the slave trade, and engages with the idea of the
ocean and enforced movement; *Compares and connects recent
scholarship in the social sciences and the humanities centring the
ocean to break away from inherited paradigms which have shaped
world history so far. As a unique transdisciplinary collaboration,
this volume will be of much interest to scholars and researchers of
history, especially oceanic history, historiography, critical
theory, literature, geography, and Global South studies.
This book imagines the ocean as central to understanding the world
and its connections in history, literature and the social sciences.
Introducing the central conceptual category of ocean as method, it
analyzes the histories of movement and traversing across connected
spaces of water and land sedimented in literary texts, folklore,
local histories, autobiographies, music and performance. It
explores the constant flow of people, material and ideologies
across the waters and how they make their presence felt in a
cosmopolitan thinking of the connections of the world. Going beyond
violent histories of slavery and indenture that generate global
connections, it tracks the movements of sailors, boatmen, religious
teachers, merchants, and adventurers. The essays in this volume
summon up this miscegenated history in which land and water are
ever linked. A significant rethinking of world history, this volume
will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of history,
especially connected history and maritime history, literature, and
Global South studies.
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