Language Ideologies and the Vernacular in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia

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List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Note on Transliteration

Introduction: Language Ideologies and the 'Vernacular': A Critical Perspective

Nishat Zaidi and Hans Harder

PART I

Ideologies of Vernaculars and English

1 Beyond Hegemonic Binaries: English and the 'Vernaculars' in Post-liberalization India

Javed Majeed

2 Urdu Language Ideologies and Pakistani Identity

Arian Hopf

3 "Mother English": Savitribai Phule on Caste Patriarchy and the Ideology of the English Vernacular

Christian Lee Novetzke

4 The Location of Theory: Bha?s?a Literatures in Indian and North American Postcolonialism

Suddhaseel Sen

5 A Vernacular Archive of Sex and Sexuality: Personal Annotations

Charu Gupta

6 Political Reform, Territorialising Language: Re-casting Difference, Constitutional Categories and Developmental Goals, 1905-1950s

Veena Naregal

PART II

Lost/Found in Translation between Vernaculars and English

7 Linguistic Estrangement: When Is a Language My Own?

Sudipta Kaviraj

8 British Translators, Bhagat Singh, and 'Atheism': How 'Reverse Translation' Alters the Meaning of Philosophical Concepts

Ruth Vanita

9 Telling Lives in Forked Tongues: Reading Shanta Gokhale's and Nabaneeta Dev Sen's Autobiographical Writings

Dhrupadi Chattopadhyay

10 Vernacularizing Science in Colonial Bengal: A Translational Site of 'Other' Archives

Indrani Das Gupta

11 Multilingual Locals in Transnational Geographies: Vaijnan? ik Upanyas? and the Cosmopolitanisation of Hindi in Late Colonial North India

Ishita Singh

PART III

Language Ideology, Literature and the Vernacular Public Spheres

12 Vernacularizing Emotions: Mohammed Ali's Comrade and Hamdard

Margrit Pernau

13 In Defence of the Prem|sa?gar: Re-evaluating the Narrative of the Hindi-Urdu Split

Gautam Liu

14 Vernaculars across Texts: Modern Islam and Modern Literature in Bengal

Neilesh Bose

15 Reading Caste in Vernacular Journals

Meenakshi Yadav

16 A South Asian Vernacular Public Overseas: Tamil in the Straits Settlements, c. 1870-1942

Torsten Tschacher

Index