India Tracts
Author : John Zephaniah Holwell
Publisher :
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 19,33 MB
Release : 1764
Category : Bengal (India)
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Author : John Zephaniah Holwell
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Page : 310 pages
File Size : 19,33 MB
Release : 1764
Category : Bengal (India)
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Author : Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge
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Page : 292 pages
File Size : 17,47 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Art
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Author : Financial Reform Association (Liverpool, Merseyside)
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Page : 582 pages
File Size : 15,93 MB
Release : 1851
Category : Latter Day Saint churches
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Author : John Robinson
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Page : 12 pages
File Size : 47,12 MB
Release : 1813
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Author : Louis Agassiz
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Page : 642 pages
File Size : 36,45 MB
Release : 1854
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Page : 634 pages
File Size : 46,5 MB
Release : 1748
Category : Great Britain
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Page : 532 pages
File Size : 39,3 MB
Release : 1751
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Author : Thomas Rodd
Publisher :
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 48,9 MB
Release : 1819
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
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Author : Harlan Page Beach
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Page : 242 pages
File Size : 39,30 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Evangelistic work
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Author : Alok Rai
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 49,14 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Hindi language
ISBN : 9788125019794
This tract looks at the politics of language in India through a study of the history of one language Hindi. It traces the tragic metamorphosis of this language over the last century, from a creative, dynamic, popular language to a dead, Sanskritised, dePersianised language manufactured by a self-serving upper caste North Indian elite, nurturing hegemonic ambitions. From being a symbol of collective imagination it became a signifier of narrow sectarianism and regional chauvinism. The tract shows how this trans- formation of the language was tied up with the politics of communalism and regionalism.