02804nam a22003377a 4500 20220628104246.0 220628b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9789390358731 :Zafaa Books & Distributors :313/56F 49A, Anand Nagar Inderlok Delhi 110035 :ZBD0259 :20/06/2022 495.95 CHO Choksi, Nishaant Graphic Politics in Eastern India :script and the quest for autonomy / Nishaant Choksi New York :Bloomsbury Academic ©2021 xvi, 203p. 24cm. 999 Bloomsbury studies in linguistic anthropology Ol as autonomous practice -- Scaling multiscriptality in a village market -- Caste, community and Santali-language education -- Santali-language print media and the Jharkhand imagination -- Conclusion: Autonomy and the global field of graphic politics "Investigating the communicative practices of indigenous Santali speakers in eastern India, this book examines the overlooked role of script in regional movements for autonomy to provide one of the first comprehensive theoretical and ethnographical accounts of 'graphic politics'. Based on extensive fieldwork in the villages of southwestern West Bengal, Nishaant Choksi explores the deployment of Santali scripts, including a newly created script called Ol Chiki, in Bengali-dominated local markets, the education system and in the circulation of print media. He shows how manipulating the linguistic landscape and challenging the idea of a vernacular enables Santali speakers to delineate their own political domains and scale their language on local, regional and national levels. In doing so, they contest Bengali-speaking upper castes' hegemony over public spaces and institutions, as well as the administrative demarcations of the contemporary Indian nation-state. Combining semiotic theory with ethnographically grounded investigation, Graphic Politics in Eastern India offers a new framework for understanding writing and literacy practices among ethnic minorities and points to future directions for interdisciplinary research on indigenous autonomy in South Asia" Languages Languages of East and Southeast Asia Santali language -- Writing. Written communication -- Political aspects -- India -- West Bengal. Written communication -- Social aspects -- India -- West Bengal. Alphabet santali -- Aspect politique. Communication écrite -- Aspect politique -- Inde -- Bengale-Occidental. Language and culture. Written communication -- Social aspects. India -- West Bengal. Choksi, Nishaant BOOK 59439 59439 0 0 ddc 0 1 SNUL SNUL 2022-06-28 Zafaa Books & Distributors 999.00 0 495.95 CHO 28779 2022-06-28 00:00:00 2022-06-28 BOOK