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028			_a:Variety Books Publishers & Distributors _b:B-10 Street No 2 West Vinod Nagar Delhi 110092 _c:IM2614 _d:22/11/2019
082			_a891.3 OLL
100			_aOllett, Andrew
245			_aPrakrit, and the language order of premodern India _c/ Andrew Ollett
260			_aNew Delhi _b;Premis Books _c2018
300			_a308p. _c24cm.
365			_b1250
505			_a Prakrit in the language order of India -- Inventing Prakrit: the languages of power -- Inventing Prakrit: the languages of literature -- The forms of Prakrit literature -- Figuring Prakrit -- Knowing Prakrit -- Forgetting Prakrit
520			_aLanguage of the Snakes traces the history of the Prakrit language as a literary phenomenon, starting from its cultivation in courts of the Deccan in the first few centuries of the common era. Although little studied today, Prakrit was an important vector of the "kavya movement," and once joined Sanskrit at the apex of classical Indian literary culture. The opposition--as well as underlying identity--between Prakrit and Sanskrit was at the center of an enduring "language order" in India, a set of ways of thinking about, naming, classifying, representing, and ultimately using languages. As a language of classical literature that nevertheless retained its associations with more demotic language practices, Prakrit both embodies major cultural tensions--between high and low, transregional and regional, cosmopolitan and vernacular--and provides a unique perspective onto the history of literature and culture in South Asia."--Provided by publisher
650			_aLIterature
650			_a Other Language literatures
650			_aEast Indo-European & Celtic literatures
650			_aPrakrit literature -- History and criticism.
650			_aLanguage and culture -- India.
650			_aSanskrit literature -- History and criticism.
650			_aSanskrit literature -- History and criticism.
700			_aOllett, Andrew
942			_cBOOK