Analyzes language and its role in identity formation in British India, an area devoid of any systematic study

Systematically tracks the politics of language in the colonial period, and shows how that conditioned post-independence politics

Places language at the core of thinking and rationalizing about India

Autorentext
Dr. Papia Sengupta, Assistant Professor, Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences II, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.

Inhalt
Chapter 1 Theoretical developments-linking language to identity.- Chapter 2 Language situation in colonial India: Story of Bengal.- Chapter 3 Making identity out of language: Beyond Bengal.- Chapter 4 Building identity: Information, intellect and inspiration.- **** Chapter 5 Language and construction of plural selves.- Chapter 6 Language conundrum.