TY - BOOK ID - 61111906 TI - Language and the making of modern India : nationalism and the vernacular in colonial Odisha, 1803-1956 PY - 2020 SN - 9781108591263 1108591264 1108425739 9781108425735 9781108443319 1108679897 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Odisha (India) KW - Language policy KW - Glottopolitics KW - Institutional linguistics KW - Language and languages KW - Language and state KW - Languages, National KW - Languages, Official KW - National languages KW - Official languages KW - State and language KW - Communication policy KW - Language planning KW - Languages&delete& KW - Political aspects KW - Government policy KW - E-books KW - Languages KW - Political aspects. KW - State of Odisha (India) KW - Orissa (India) KW - India KW - History KW - Asia KW - India & South Asia UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:61111906 AB - Through an examination of the creation of the first linguistically organized province in India, Odisha, Pritipuspa Mishra explores the ways regional languages came to serve as the most acceptable registers of difference in post-colonial India. She argues that rather than disrupting the rise and spread of All-India nationalism, regional linguistic nationalism enabled and deepened the reach of nationalism in provincial India. Yet this positive narrative of the resolution of Indian multilingualism ignores the cost of linguistic division. Examining the case of the Adivasis of Odisha, Mishra shows how regional languages in India have come to occupy a curiously hegemonic position. Her study pushes us to rethink our understanding of the vernacular in India as a powerless medium and acknowledges the institutional power of language, contributing to global debates about linguistic justice and the governance of multilingualism. This title is also available as Open Access. ER -