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Hindi Nationalism (Tracts For The Times)

Alok Rai

出版	Orient Blackswan, 2001
ISBN	81250197909788125019794
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=fmnpssOM_3kC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋

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.