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028			_aRaghav Books _bA-184, A, Nand Gram, Ghaziabad _c1000 _d04/09/2025
082			_a306.44 HAK
100			_aHakala, Walter N.
245			_aNegotiating languages _b: Urdu, Hindi and the definition of modern South Asia. _c/ 2017.
260			_aDelhi _b: Primus Books, _c , 2017.
300			_axxiv, 287 p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b875
520			_aThis book casts lexicographers as key figures in the political realignment of South Asia under British rule and in the years after independence. Prior to the nineteenth century, South Asian dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies reflected a hierarchical vision of nature and human society. By the turn of the twentieth century, the modern dictionary had democratized and politicized language. Compiled ‘scientifically’ through ‘historical principles’, the modern dictionary became a concrete symbol of a nation’s arrival on the world stage. Their dictionaries document how a single, mutually intelligible language evolved into two competing registers—Urdu and Hindi—and became associated with contrasting religious and nationalist goals. Each chapter in this book focuses on a key lexicographical work and its fateful political consequences. Effectively, this book recovers overlooked texts and denigrated authors to provide insights into the forces that turned intimate speech into potent nationalist politics, intensifying the passions that partitioned the Indian subcontinent.
650			_aNegotiating Languages
650			_aUrdu, Hindi
650			_aModern South Asia
700			_a Walter N. Hakala
942			_cBOOK
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