@article{838378,
      recid = {838378},
      author = {Sengupta, Papia,},
      title = {Language as identity in colonial India : policies and  politics /},
      publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan,},
      address = {Singapore :},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      year = {2018},
      abstract = {This book is a systematic narrative, tracking the colonial  language policies and acts responsible for the creation of  a sense of “self-identity” and culminating in the evolution  of nationalistic fervor in colonial India. British policy  on language for administrative use and as a weapon to rule  led to the parallel development of Indian vernaculars:  poets, novelists, writers and journalists produced great  and fascinating work that conditioned and directed India's  path to independence. The book presents a theoretical  proposition arguing that language as identity is a colonial  construct in India, and demonstrates this by tracing the  events, policies and changes that led to the development  and churning up of Indian national sentiments and  attitudes. It is a testimony of India's linguistic journey  from a British colony to a modern state. Demonstrating that  language as basis of identity was a colonial construct in  modern India, the book asserts that any in-depth  understanding of identity and politics in contemporary  India remains incomplete without looking at colonial  policies on language and education, from which the multiple  discourses on “self” and belonging in modern India  emanated.  .},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/838378},
}