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028			_a:Zafaa Books & Distributors _b:313/56F 49A, Anand Nagar Inderlok Delhi 110035 _c:ZBD0259 _d:20/06/2022
082			_a495.95 CHO
100			_aChoksi, Nishaant
245			_aGraphic Politics in Eastern India _b:script and the quest for autonomy _c/ Nishaant Choksi
260			_aNew York _b:Bloomsbury Academic _c ©2021
300			_axvi, 203p. _c24cm.
365			_b999
490			_aBloomsbury studies in linguistic anthropology
505			_aOl 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
520			_a"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"
650			_aLanguages
650			_aLanguages of East and Southeast Asia
650			_aSantali language -- Writing.
650			_aWritten communication -- Political aspects -- India -- West Bengal.
650			_aWritten communication -- Social aspects -- India -- West Bengal.
650			_aAlphabet santali -- Aspect politique.
650			_aCommunication écrite -- Aspect politique -- Inde -- Bengale-Occidental.
650			_aLanguage and culture.
650			_aWritten communication -- Social aspects.
650			_aIndia -- West Bengal.
700			_aChoksi, Nishaant
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