Author: Tariq Rahman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2018-02-10
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780199403424
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is the first of its kind on the socio-political history of Urdu. It analyses the historiography of the language-narratives about its names, linguistic ancestry, place of birth-and relates it to the politics of identity-construction among the Hindus and Muslims of India during the last two centuries. More importantly, a historical account of the use of Urdu in social domains such as employment, education, printing and publishing, radio, films and television etc. has been provided for the first time. These accounts are related to the expression of Hindu and Muslim identity-politics during the last two centuries. Evolution of Urdu from the language of the laity, both Hindus and Muslims, of the Indian subcontinent during the period between 15th-18th centuries to its standardization into two languages: Persianized Urdu and Sanskritized Hindi are highlighted here. The writer looks at narratives of the names, theories of genealogy and places of origin of the language in relation to the political imperatives of identity-politics of Hindus and Muslims during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In a nutshell, historiography is analyzed with reference to its political and ideological dimensions-and a fresh analysis regarding the linguistic history of Urdu is provided.
Author: Christine Everaert
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9004177310
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book sheds light on the complex relationship between Hindi and Urdu. Through a detailed reading of a representative set of 20th century short stories in both languages, the author leads the reader towards a clear definition of the differences between Hindi and Urdu. The full translations of the stories have been extensively annotated to point out the details in which the Hindi and Urdu versions differ. An overview of early and contemporary Hindi/Urdu and Hindustani grammars and language teaching textbooks demonstrates the problems of correctly naming and identifying the two languages. This book now offers a detailed and systematic database of syntactic, morphological and semantic differences between the selected Hindi and Urdu stories. A useful tool for all scholars of modern Hindi/Urdu fiction, (socio-)linguistics, history or social sciences.
Author: Emily Manetta
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9027208212
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral-University of California, Santa Cruz) under the title: Peripheries in Kashmiri and Hindi-Urdu.
Author: Walter N. Hakala
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2016-08-30
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 0231542127
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 "historical principles," the modern dictionary became a concrete symbol of a nation's arrival on the world stage. Following this phenomenon from the late seventeenth century to the present, Negotiating Languages casts lexicographers as key figures in the political realignment of South Asia under British rule and in the years after independence. Their dictionaries document how a single, mutually intelligible language evolved into two competing registers—Urdu and Hindi—and became associated with contrasting religious and nationalist goals. Each chapter in this volume focuses on a key lexicographical work and its fateful political consequences. Recovering texts by overlooked and even denigrated authors, Negotiating Languages provides insight into the forces that turned intimate speech into a potent nationalist politics, intensifying the passions that partitioned the Indian subcontinent.
Author: Christine Everaert
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2009-12-07
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9004182233
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book provides an inside into the complex relationship between Hindi and Urdu. A comparison of 20th century short stories that were published in both Hindi and Urdu are used as a basis to define the boundaries between both languages.
Author: Abdul Jamil Khan
Publisher: Algora Publishing
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 0875864376
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The lingua franca of the Indo-Pakistani people is one language, claims Khan, called Hindi when written in Nagari and Urdu when written in Arabic. He says it is not descended from Sanskrit, as conventionally believed, but is 10-12,000 years old and was influenced early by the Austric-Munda and Dravidian language families. Leaving aside any religious
Author: Belkacem Belmekki
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2020-08-10
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 3112208684
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Die Reihe Islamkundliche Untersuchungen wurde 1969 im Klaus Schwarz Verlag begründet und hat sich zu einem der wichtigsten Publikationsorgane der Islamwissenschaft in Deutschland entwickelt. Die über 330 Bände widmen sich der Geschichte, Kultur und den Gesellschaften Nordafrikas, des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens sowie Zentral-, Süd- und Südost-Asiens.
Author: Amrit Rai
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780195628111
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Shahara Ahmed
Publisher:
Published: 2016-09
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781786570208
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