If All The World Were Paper (Record no. 70833)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9789363360938
028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name : Technical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd.
Distributor address : 4794/23, 1st Floor, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi
Bill Number : TB2194
Bill Date : 30/09/2026
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 491.439 WIL
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Willims, Tyler W.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title If All The World Were Paper
Remainder of title : A History Of Writing In Hindi.
Statement of responsibility, etc / Tyler W. Williams.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc , New Delhi
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : Speaking Tiger
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 2024.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xxi, 307p.
Dimensions : 26cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 489
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "How do writing and literacy reshape the ways a language and its literature are imagined? Combining close readings of literary and scholarly works with the study of hundreds of handwritten books from the precolonial era, If All the World Were Paper explores this question in the context of Hindi, the most widely spoken language in India and the fourth most widely spoken language in the world today. The material and social processes through which Hindi came to be written down, and the particular forms these texts took—from illustrated storybooks of Sufi romances to loose-leaf textbooks used by Bhakti singers; from personal notebooks to cloth-wrapped scriptures—played a critical role in establishing it as a language capable of transmitting poetry, erudition, and even revelation. Emerging onto the literary scene of the subcontinent in the mid-fourteenth century, through humble and ornate literary objects alike, the vernacular of Hindi quickly came to acquire a place alongside ‘classical’ languages like Sanskrit and Persian as a medium of literature and scholarship, shaping its growth for centuries to come. Demonstrating how the life of books—the way they were inscribed, organized, and handled—can tell us as much about their meaning and significance as the words within, Tyler W. Williams forcefully argues for a new approach to the history of languages. This book is both a history of Hindi’s literary formation and an urgent call to engage differently with the fragile multilingual archives of South Asia, before time and neglect erase them."<br/>
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element History
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element History Of Writing
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Paper Writing
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Tyler W. Williams.
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 03/10/2026 Technical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd. 489.00   491.439 WIL 31809 03/10/2026 03/10/2026 Books
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