Negotiating Languages : : Urdu, Hindi, and the Definition of Modern South Asia / / Walter Hakala.
Prior to the nineteenth century, South Asian dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies reflected a hierarchical vision of nature and human society. By the turn of the twentieth century, the modern dictionary had democratized and politicized language. Compiled "scientifically" through &quo...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2017] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | South Asia Across the Disciplines
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 13 b&w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration
- Chronology
- 1. A Plot Discovered
- 2. 1700: Between Microhistory and Macrostructures
- 3. 1800: Through The Veil of Poetry
- 4. 1900: Lexicography and The Self
- 5. 1900: Grasping at Straws
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index