:script and the quest for autonomy Choksi, Nishaant creator Choksi, Nishaant text New York :Bloomsbury Academic ©2021 monographic eng

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xvi, 203p. 24cm. "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" 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 / Nishaant Choksi 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 495.95 CHO 9789390358731 :Zafaa Books & Distributors :313/56F 49A, Anand Nagar Inderlok Delhi 110035 220628 20220628104246.0