Language and the Making of Modern India : Nationalism and the Vernacular in Colonial Odisha, 1803-1956

Through an examination of the creation of the first linguistically organized province in India, Odisha, Pritipuspa Mishra explores the ways regional languages came to serve as the most acceptable registers of difference in post-colonial India. She argues that rather than disrupting the rise and spre...

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Main Author: Mishra, Pritipuspa (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: Cambridge University Press 2018
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