Nation and Region in Grierson's Linguistic Survey of India

ISBN-13: 9781138556706 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 230 str.

Javed Majeed

Opis

This book is the first detailed examination of Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India. It shows how the Survey collaborated with Indian activists to consolidate the regional languages in India. It highlights how the Survey played an important role in the emergence of religious nationalism and language conflict in the subcontinent in 20^th century.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments. Note on Transliteration. Introduction: The Survey and India’s Languages 1 Regional Assertiveness 2 Mapping Languages 3 ‘Double Names’ 4 The Politics of Grammar 5 Grierson and the Indian Nation 6 Aryanism and Semitism 7 Visceral Language and Citizenship. Conclusion: The Survey’s Legacy. Bibliography. Index

O autorze

Javed Majeed is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at King’s College London, UK, and has held appointments at SOAS, University of London, and Queen Mary University of London. He has published widely on the intellectual and literary history of modern South Asia. His previous books include Ungoverned Imaginings: James Mill’s The History of British India and Orientalism (1992), Autobiography, Travel and Postnational Identity: Gandhi, Nehru and Iqbal (2007), and Muhammad Iqbal: Islam, Aesthetics and Postcolonialism (2009).