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Author Mir, Farina, author.

Title The social space of language : vernacular culture in British colonial Punjab / Farina Mir.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 277 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Series South Asia across the disciplines ; 2
South Asia across the disciplines.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- Forging a language policy -- Punjabi print culture -- A Punjabi literary formation -- Place and personhood -- Piety and devotion -- Conclusion.
Note Description based on print version record.
Summary This rich cultural history set in Punjab examines a little-studied body of popular literature to illustrate both the durability of a vernacular literary tradition and the limits of colonial dominance in British India. Farina Mir asks how qisse, a vibrant genre of epics and romances, flourished in colonial Punjab despite British efforts to marginalize the Punjabi language. She explores topics including Punjabi linguistic practices, print and performance, and the symbolic content of qisse. She finds that although the British denied Punjabi language and literature almost all forms of state patron.
Subject Panjabi literature -- History and criticism -- 19th century.
Panjabi literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Literature and society -- India -- Punjab -- History -- 19th century.
Literature and society -- India -- Punjab -- History -- 20th century.
Punjab (India) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
Punjab (India) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Nineteenth century.
Twentieth century.
History.
History and criticism.
India.
Intellectual life.
Literature and society.
Panjabi literature.
Punjab (India)
Language and languages.
Literature.
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
Intellectual life. (OCoLC)fst00975769
Literature and society. (OCoLC)fst01000096
Panjabi literature. (OCoLC)fst01052162
India -- Punjab. (OCoLC)fst01202652
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Mir, Farina. Social space of language. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010 9780520262690 (DLC) 2009049413 (OCoLC)488731894
Standard No. 9786612771781
ISBN 9780520947641 (electronic bk.)
0520947649 (electronic bk.)
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